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Even at favored universities, a flood of federal money for some specific purpose makes one department a rich empire, leaves others poor foundlings. Princeton's Goheen sees "a marked and dangerous trend" to skimp on undergraduate education. More and more professors now devote full time to research-often far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Impoverishment by Riches | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

More advanced nations pay their workers higher wages, but the products they produce and their methods of production are different from those of underdeveloped countries. These areas must devote their resources to agriculture, the sector of the economy where new productivity is lowest. Also, since capital is very expensive in...

Author: By Burton Selman, | Title: Forum Views Japanese Economy | 8/20/1962 | See Source »

In a short interview given after the reading, Miss Sarton said that she plans to devote herself to poetry for a while and will not write any more prose for at least a year. She will be at Wellesley for the first semester of the coming year and will teach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reading By May Sarton | 8/20/1962 | See Source »

For example one of the chief tasks of the group I have been working with is to organize a selective buying campaign--where Negroes will not shop at stores that refuse to hire them. It has been almost impossible to find a local Negro who will devote to the project...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: REPORT ON INTEGRATION IN A MARYLAND TOWN | 8/20/1962 | See Source »

Edward Bennett Williams should have a good book in him about his spectacular career of defending some of the most violently unpopular of public figures. At 42, Williams has made upwards of $150,000 a year for standing between an aroused society and the likes of Jimmy Hoffa and Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Defender of Pariahs | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

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