Word: coms
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...instance, on the recommendation of the University Grants Com- mission, a certain portion of the Annamalai faculty has been trying for the past two or three years to gain approval of a measure that would put 30% of an arts student's grade on class work, instead of all on the public examination. To date they have been unsuccessful, but resistance has been gradually waning...
...charge of public lands, recently worked with the President on the budget and matters concerning the Interior Department. - To be special assistant to the President: W. (for William) Marvin Watson, 40, assistant to the president of Dallas' Lone Star Steel Co., chairman of the Texas State Democratic Com mittee, and skilled political organizer who helped in the President's election campaign. As all-round administrative assistant, Watson will get $28,500 a year, will perform liaison work with Governors, and in effect will take over the official duties once performed by former Aide Walter Jenkins. Said President Johnson...
...Four new perennials from New York's Jackson & Perkins, including a dwarf lavender-blue aster and a com pact, nonspreading Purple Heart...
...opera, its last professional U.S. production, seven years ago, had been decidedly unsuccessful. Yet when the Minneapolis Center Opera Com pany presented Carl Orff's The Wise Woman and the King at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater last week, it proved to be one of the most engaging productions of the U.S. opera season...
...company is ICOMI (for Indústria e Comércio de Minérios), which is owned 51% by Brazilians and 49% by Bethlehem Steel Corp. ICOMI owns the exclusive rights to one of the world's biggest known reserves of manganese ore, discovered in the Amazon Basin in 1946. By careful planning, efficient management and plain luck, it has not only launched a highly successful mining operation but completely avoided the abuse that Brazil's ultranationalists have heaped on other mining firms that have foreign interests...