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...Under a compact that Nabulsi made with Syria, schools in Jordan and Syria now give common degrees, follow common courses, and eventually were to use common textbooks (to be produced by Nasser's professors). The Nabulsi government also initialed an agreement with Syria for a customs and currency union that would shortly have shifted Jordan's economic capital to Damascus-an arrangement that Jerusalem's sharp traders were slow in getting wise to. In their first months in office, Nabulsi's leftists brought the Anglo-Jordanian treaty to an end. replaced the British subsidy...
...start, the chain chose Bartlesville, where it will convert one of its three theaters into a subscription-TV studio. The town has a compact pattern of telephone poles, and it gets good TV reception from three commercial stations. Explains Jerrold President Milton J. Shapp: "We wanted to compete with TV rather than come in on the fringe of TV reception." Estimated cost of wiring Bartlesville: $350,000. For the subscriber the monthly $9.50 charge will also cover the cost of connecting a lead-in from the coaxial cable to an unused channel...
...tossed overboard "love poems of a personal nature" as well as "poems descriptive of events in place and time . . . that seem now as dead as any other journalism." And she believes that poems written according to formal rules are "but an imitation of poetry." What, then, is left? A compact, pocket-sized jewel case of highly personal and rare poetic experiences that have less outward shine than inner glow. Poet Raine's father was a spare-time nonconformist preacher in suburban London, but there is no doubt that a Buddhist would understand better than a Christian the implications...
Sales competition was bringing down the price of family inboards to meet the outboards. Carlisle tagged its 17-ft. Aqua-Queen cruiser with new compact Fageol VIP 35-h.p. engine at $1,995. Ulrichsen priced its 21-ft. Sea Skiff with twin 60-h.p. Chris Craft engines at $2,895. For do-it-yourselfers, there were kits ranging from an 8-ft. pram at $52 to a 23-ft. cabin cruiser for $879, about half what each would cost assembled...
Best of all was compact (6 ft. 1 in., 205 lbs.) Don Bosseler. All afternoon he sprayed Northerners about the landscape, and in 28 tries logged 189 yards from scrimmage-a performance that gave Losing Coach Joe Kuharich considerable consolation. For Bosseler, the man who beat him, had already been drafted by Kuharich's Washington Redskins...