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NDEA represents a new era in the financing of American education, an era in which the bulk of financial aid to universities will be in the hands of non-academic authorities. No one who has followed the growing crisis in American universities--both public and private--for the past decade can deny that federal money will become more and more necessary to their survival. At the same time, no one concerned with academic freedom can fail to see the threat such aid poses. The NDEA disclaimer affidavit constitutes an unhealthy chauvinist precedent for government-university relations in this...
Once operating, the remodeled theatre will still use second-run Hollywood films for the bulk of its shows. However, Brattle Films hopes to intersperse the second-runs with an occasional current film, in addition to foreign movies and live entertainment. No performers have been contracted yet, but the company plans to book them at regular intervals during the spring term...
Cornucopious. The very bulk of the output kills appetite, Barzun writes. "Symphonies in bars and cabs, classical drama on television any day of the week, highbrow paperbacks in mountainous profusion (easier to buy than to read), 'art seminars in the home,' capsule operas, 'Chopin by Starlight.' 'The Sound of Wagner,' 'The Best of World Literature'; this cornucopia thrust at the inexperienced and pouring out its contents over us all deadens attention and keeps taste stillborn, like any form of gross feeding. Too much art in too many places means art robbed...
...save money and to play on their own special situations, many companies have devised their own games. Procter & Gamble puts college students who are thinking of working for the company after graduation through a summer game in which each player "runs" an imaginary plant producing "synthetic granules and bulk-oil food products." General Electric has six games going under such ear-shocking titles as Uniflo, Inven-trol and Dispatch-0. "It's really a way to adjust your mind to top management," explains one G.E. executive. "The quicker you start to think of a business problem as a thing...
...from Cuba are handled at small, non-union docks in the U.S. They travel in foreign ships and small, privately owned U.S. vessels. The biggest regular shipping center is Tampa, Fla.. where two converted World War II landing craft make the Havana run every week or so. The bulk of U.S. imports is tobacco-$11.3 million worth during the first half of 1961, most of it for Tampa's 75-year-old cigar industry. The U.S. sells Cuba mainly Pharmaceuticals...