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Defter Dissertations. A different attack on the problem is to reform the dissertation. Berkeley English Professor Charles Muscatine calls the present Ph.D. "narrow, specialized and constipated. What is needed is a more human and intelligent relationship between the student's training and his thesis." Many dissertations are tedious tomes, running up to a thousand pages and taking two or more years to write-and seemingly almost as long for an outsider to read...
...declared a British Government White Paper that probed the country's rising crimes of violence and pointed the way for a 1964 experiment: compensation for people who suffer physical injury at the hands of wrongdoers. Headed by Sir Ronald Long, former president of the English Law Society, a six-lawyer committee called the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board has invited any Briton to claim damages for anything from arson to assault to injuries incurred while helping the police or trying to make a citizen's arrest...
...Graham crusades will be the use of closedcircuit television to broadcast the crusade to cities as far away as Glasgow and Edinburgh. All these techniques are designed to take dead aim on Britain's low rate (10%) of church attendance, on the huffy refusal of the average English cleric to proselytize, and on the acknowledged need of Graham's men to conserve the results of decisions for Christ better than they have in the past...
Juan found himself a good teacher: Blanche Laverne Johnson, a plump, elderly woman who lived near Candlestick Park. "Mama" Johnson took Marichal and Matty Alou into her home as boarders, force-fed them English, lectured them on "Getting Along in America." "If we didn't pay attention to what she said," recalls Alou, "she'd grab her dish mop and give us a swat. She'd tell us, 'You want to make good in this country, you learn to speak English. Nobody makes shaving commercials in Spanish.' " Lonely and homesick, Marichal played Dominican records over...
...competitors have some selling to do before they can tap this market fully. The U.S. and British governments still refuse permits for the sale to the East of such advanced third-generation equipment as the IBM System/360 and English Electric's System 4, which computer commissars want to buy most of all. Beyond that, as Western experts discovered at Prague, the East is woefully ignorant of even second-generation procedures and equipment. "In most cases," commented one American expert, "the machines are too sophisticated for the problems. The Communists are very good in theory, but they have...