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Occupational Bugaboo...
...week, when 4,000 members of ten economic and statistical societies gathered in Washington for their annual meeting, the economists surprised one another by their new and friendly view of big business and their calmer attitude toward monopoly. Said Yale's Assistant Professor G. Warren Nutter: "The bigness bugaboo took a licking here...
...Bugaboo. To newsmen, notably on papers of 50,000 or less circulation (more than 75% of all TTS users), TTS is a great timesaver. "With TTS," says Alden C. Waite, boss of the eight-paper Southern California Associated Newspapers chain, "you free your wire editor from doing all the clerical work of going through and marking capital letters [on ordinary teletype copy which is all in caps], and allow him to do real selective editing...
...idea that TTS might lead to more standardized news," says Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press-Democrat General Manager Dan Bowerman, "is a phony bugaboo. Papers have been getting leased-wire news for years, and they seldom do any fancy editing on it anyway, except for a local angle here & there." A.P. Traffic Executive Harry Montgomery ran a test of dailies taking TTS, found they not only played their stories differently, but had more time and manpower to concentrate on their own state and local news. Many papers that buy TTS from the wire services also now use their own TTS machine...
...thesis requirement is not the bugaboo that popular opinion has it, since new results are not expected. Rather, it represents an assimilation of reading in a branch of mathematics, with some theorems derived from the reading. And while no generals are required, honors candidates must take a special examination in the subject of their thesis...