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...asked to come in. For example, 90 per cent of the boys who applied for the class of 1937 were admitted. Twenty-four years later Harvard admitted only one quarter of those who applied for the class of 1961. The University had become a national institution, drawing to its cornucopia many boys of middle class families and and many immigrants' grandsons...
Galbraith has been away a long time, so now he can look back wryly and serenely on the frugal farmers who grew a cornucopia of crops, on the old Baptist church where no collection plate was passed, on the chaste, sober citizens who were chaste and sober largely because sin was expensive. Penny pinching was a way of life. If Galbraith's politicking father ever earned the disapprobation of his fellow citizens, it was not because he bought votes, but because he might have got them cheaper...
Doing business is not easy in Argentina, the crumpled cornucopia that in the past 16 months has gone through six economics ministers and five revolutionary crises. But some companies have managed to make millions despite all, and the leader of these is a nimble giant that sells Argentina the best that the rest of the world has to offer. It is SIAM Di Tella, Ltda., Latin America's biggest manufacturer, which produces an array of machines to cool, clean, feed and transport the Argentines. After the shabbiest year for Argentine business in a generation, SIAM'S 1962 sales...
Thanksgiving Parade (CBS and NBC, 10 a.m.-noon). A cornucopia of coast-to-coast celebrations with bands, baton twirlers, floats...
Despite the discouraging results so far, many scientists argue that military-space research will ultimately produce an overflowing cornucopia of marketable consumer products, from supersonic planes to small nuclear reactors for home power...