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...cure the ills, the tall, scholarly Frei has more than a few ideas. Among those in the hard-planning stage: doubling Chile's 630,000-ton annual copper production in six years, vastly expanding the hesitant land reform program begun by his predecessor Jorge Alessandri, building such resources as pulp-yielding trees and the fishing potential of Chile's endless coastline. To help him, the new president has put together one of Latin America's most competent cabinets, drawing men from the top ranks of the professions, business, labor and government...
Trusty Trustees. Conant's cure for such shortsightedness is the creation of an "Interstate Commission for Planning a Nationwide Educational Policy." The commission, as Conant envisions it, ought to be a formal compact approved by Congress and composed of representatives chosen by the states-not educators but rather distinguished citizens such as those that serve as trustees of topnotch universities...
...college applicant's Anguish Quotient keeps climbing too. "Who gets into college, and where, is a national dilemma that has much of America close to an epileptic fit," says Tufts University Dean of Admissions John C. Palmer, guidance committee chairman of the mighty College Entrance Board. An immediate cure for the problem is clearly impossible, but a variety of useful antidotes that offer quick partial relief have come on the market...
...some youngsters, usually those of an introspective and sensitive nature, become addicted to it. They fall into a vicious cycle in which long hours of viewing leave them too tired to do anything more strenuous than sprawl out to do more viewing. The ultimate cure is as simple as it is radical: send the kids out to play, and after dark give them a book to read...
Romney prescribed free competition as a cure for a variety of economic ills. He called for private technical aid to make the world's underdeveloped nations competitive on the world market, and for public assistance to groups in American society who cannot compote because of hindrances of race or poverty...