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...McNamara's request for $287 million to buy 20 F-lllBs for Navy testing was rudely rejected by the committee, which approved only $147,900,000 for eight of the swing-wing ships. The higher cost per plane includes design changes and ground-support gear as well as custom fabrication of the plane itself...
...keys to the Kingdom of Heaven; whatever is bound on earth is bound in heaven; whatever is loosed on earth is loosed in heaven.' I pronounce you man and wife for time and all eternity." After the official ceremony, the couple exchanged rings -bowing to popular custom rather than church doctrine-and kissed...
...Watering & Delicious. The two firms are happy to make these semiannual sacrifices because no product on earth can give more tone and prestige to department stores that usually boast of their low-price bargains. A few expensive shops in half a dozen U.S. cities sell a tiny number of custom-fitted Paris interpretations at extremely high prices; cheaper concerns turn out low-cost copies in nonoriginal fabrics. Ohrbach's and Alexander's win their acclaim by making large numbers of line-for-line copies in the original fabric at a price not entirely out of reach...
...that the state laws still prevail. In Alabama, each teacher must read Scripture to pupils regularly or risk the loss of state funds to the school-and Proxy Governor George Wallace sees a sure-fire political plus for him in a fight with anyone who wants to challenge that custom. A Vanderbilt professor surveyed Tennessee's school districts, found that the only change some had made was to let each teacher decide whether or not to read the Bible, and give students a right to step momentarily out of the classroom. In Georgia, Associate Superintendent H. Titus Singletary concedes...
...quest for knowledge in the higher education of Vietnam is hampered by conditions that originate in war, underdevelopment and custom. There are few resources for research or for teacher improvement and few exceptions to the dominant teaching method of lectures which become student's notes and the subjects of annual examinations. As a result there is little breadth to teaching styles and the process, to a great extent, has become predictable, uniform, and for the student unexciting. Accomplishment, for the student, is almost totally in terms of passing examinations; there exist too few opportunities to analyze or compare ideas...