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...three executives, directors of programming at their respective networks, were braced for the first Nielsen ratings of the season. There was no reason for concern: their own glazed eyes could tell them that the new shows they had scheduled with great ballyhoo left some thing - entertainment, to be exact - to be desired...
...mostly Hausas of the Moslem North, which has been carrying on a vendetta against the thousands of Christian Ibos who have come from the Eastern Region to live. Aroused by reports that Hausas had been mistreated in the East, the soldiers surged out of their barracks to exact vengeance. They...
...reason is that the various forms of financial assistance to college students-scholarships, loans, jobs and combinations of all three-have finally caught up with rising costs, at least for now. A student may not always find the exact help he needs at the college he wishes to attend, and he may even have to scramble to put together his own "package" of aid. But, says Elwood C. Kastner, dean of financial aid at New York University, "where there's a will, there's a way to get through college...
Projected Figures. Exact figures are impossible to obtain, since suicides in college are kept closely under wraps. Many are recorded as "accidents"-mainly because a suicide leaves feelings of shame and guilt among the living. Moderator Editor Philip Werdell, 25, arrived at his estimates by probing every study he could find, then discreetly burying a question about suicide in a questionnaire on psychiatric services sent to 300 colleges. He got some candid answers, projected the figures from them...
...another, much of the new medical machinery is beneficial fallout from the miniaturization and precise measurement techniques learned by space-age scientists. Like protons, the furious but controllable forces of laser beams have already been used as exact surgical scalpels; at the National Institutes of Health, laser light is also being showered on cultures grown for only four hours in tiny, 2-mm. capillary tubes. The resulting scattered light can be read for presence of bacteria. Because the process is so highly accurate, the cultures do not have to be nourished for days until they grow large enough...