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...drainage system will divert water from the track and prevent it from turning into mud every time it rains--which in Cambridge is distressingly often...
Double the Income. Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's government has proposed a ten-year plan to provide many of the needed changes. But to divert the voters' attention from Japan's current political upheavals, Ikeda publicly laid greatest stress on the plan's goal of nearly doubling Japan's per capita income...
...Wheat farmers would be told not only how much wheat they could grow, but how much they could market. Wheat and grain farmers would continue to get Government price supports so long as they stayed within their quotas, would be penalized for exceeding them. Each would be obliged to divert part of his land to recreational or conservation uses, for which the Government would...
...actually buy. Nikita Khrushchev had promised every Russian citizen an average 97 sq. ft. of living space by 1970 (v. the present 75 sq. ft.*), and the new house's 430 sq. ft. for four people would more than fill the bill. But would the Soviet authorities divert enough materials and labor to produce the new house in quantity? Even as they queued up in the snow to inspect it last week, Russians were aware that except for a few top bureaucrats, the mirage would probably remain more dream than house...
Following are three comments that university presidents--and football coaches--dread. Wrote one irate graduate (class of 1927), "If you think fund raising isn't affected by our football record, try collecting from some of the average alumni. I have." Another ('22) said, "Should we divert a little attention from the Ford Foundation's gift of 7 1/2 million bucks and give it to the football situation? From a purely sales-pitch angle, it will bring in more dollars than all that high-falutin' 'larnin'.' In industry, earnings count. In a college, I believe alumni...