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...Expanded Facilities. The enrollment cutback-if it happens-would occur just at a time when most graduate schools have been expanding their facilities. The deans fear not only a sharp drop in income from tuition, but also a crippling of the research now largely carried out by graduate students on behalf of their supervising professors. Since graduate students also carry much of the undergraduate teaching load at big universities, a depletion of their ranks would force some professors out of their labs and libraries and back into classrooms. That, in turn, might force research-oriented scholars to switch to universities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Gloom in Grad Schools | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...federal government's current "war economy" drive has added to the impetus to cut down highway spending. Secretary of Transportation Alan S. Boyd recently sent telegrams to the 50 state governors, asking them for their reactions to a possible 50 per cent cutback in highway spending as an anti-inflation measure...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Cambridge Gets a Reprieve, But the Belt Still Menaces | 10/26/1967 | See Source »

Farber said he did not believe that the report would cause cutbacks in congressional appropriations for the program. He admitted that the Vietnam war, the upcoming elections, and the congress' failure to pass President Johnson's proposed tax increase would increase pressure for cutbacks. Congressmen like to go home and say that they have forced the President to cut spending," Farber said. "But most Members of Congress are very sophisticated about medical research," he added. He doubted that there would be any cutback as a direct result of the House Government Operations Committee report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farber Denies House Accusations Of Bias In NIH Research Grants | 10/25/1967 | See Source »

...recent 498-page study of New York's finest called for a complete overhaul of the organizational machinery; then it described just how the new one should be set up, from the elimination of the slot for the department's No. 2 man right down to a cutback of the city's much admired but outmoded mounted patrolmen. In another study, Boston's force was told to raise salaries, lower the compulsory retirement age and get civilians to do clerical work. Baltimore's cops were brusquely told that they did have an organized crime problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police: Behind the Blue Curtain | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...Washington thus got a taste of its own medicine. Kiesinger complained bitterly that he had had to learn of Washington's proposed cutback of U.S. troops in West Germany by reading the newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Siege of the Pentabonn | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

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