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Harris' plan is simply this: each student who needs aid would borrow $1,000, one half of which would go towards his current needs, the other five hundred towards tuition. The financiers would be either private business, such as insurance companies, or hopefully the federal government. If this program were taken up and handled properly, Harris says that "private institutions of higher learning could increase their tuition by $400 to $600 in five years." Such a program also would make doubling of current teacher salaries possible...
...such a long term proposal as this, it is necessary to have a very clear and accurate crystal ball to estimate expenses and future conditions. Harris thinks that the current amount of loans needed is about a billion and a half dollars per year, and by 1970 about two and a half billion. The apparent enormity of the loans necessary does not rule out the plan on paper, whatever actual fund-raising difficulties (the University could attest that there are many) might be. When the general picture of American private debt is considered, however, these figures do not seem...
...Plympton-Mill corner a newly-built garage has cut off the previous sight line and has made the intersection a blind corner. Winter weather may make the current near-misses into fatal crashes and Plympton Street into a death...
TOLL-ROAD TROUBLES are easing a bit, giving holders of $4.7 billion worth of bonds somewhat happier view of their investment. End of recession plus opening of important new access roads has boosted traffic to cover eight big turnpikes' current interest cost...
...earlier acid-witty examination of the species. The Straight and Narrow Path (TIME, July 30, 1956), Novelist Tracy rapped the cassocked shanks of Ireland's parish priests. In her two current books, she has broadened her field of ire to include Ireland's impoverished gentry and the grey-mottled middle class, immersed in its misty yearnings for the days of Old Sinn Fein...