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Since the war, the Housemasters each year have applied a few more bandages to the ailing House admissions program. Although they usually manage to bind up some of the more obvious wounds, they always fail to cure the underlying malady. Every spring, therefore, Housemasters face the same old problem in a slightly different guise. How can they make freshmen assignments fairly, retaining a balanced distribution and at the same time not destroying individual House spirit? Their latest experiment, announced yesterday, will no more solve the basic problem than previous attempts, even though it does climinate the absurdities...
Last week Giorgio la Pira turned his attention to the plight of about 115 workers in the creaky Delle Cure Foundry on the outskirts of Florence, which makes pipe and other cast-iron products. Since it was started in 1933, in a dingy, damp building now 87 years old, the foundry has limped along, losing money most of the time. Its equipment is ancient and its labor force, since World War II, has always been too big. In 1952 the owners went bankrupt, automatically closing shop...
...should the medical profession approach quacks? "We have a duty," says Horton, "to examine and study each new cancer-cure proposal, no matter how unreasonable it may seem." Nevertheless, Dr. Horton urges strong action: doctors everywhere should seek stiff local laws and penalties against "premeditated quackery," report quacks to state medical examiners for investigation...
...listener knew that the lyric actually reads: "Native hills are calling/To them we belong," he was easily able to diagnose the troubles in the phonograph: limited frequency response; harmonic, intermodulation and transient distortion, peaking, and possibly flutter; nonlinearity and needle talk. The audiophile's only prescription for a cure: get a high-fidelity...
...last year, more than double the engineers' estimate of $9,500,000. On the other hand. West Virginia's turnpike traffic is running below estimates, and its bonds are below par. Actually, the toll road is only suitable through a densely populated area, is not a cure-all to the nationwide need for better roads. Traffic engineers estimated that no more than 9,000 miles of U.S. highway (of a total 3,348,000 miles) carry enough traffic to pay for themselves through tolls...