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...House's opposition to the Teacher Corps had centered on the old issue of federal control over local education. After the program was dropped from an omnibus school bill this year, it was sent to an education subcommittee headed by Oregon Democrat Edith Green, a former schoolteacher whose firm ideas about education often differ from those of the Johnson Administration...
...been completed), as well as topical titles like Edwin Reischauer's The United States and Japan. Its bestseller (100,000 copies since 1944) is the Harvard Dictionary of Music; yet it will keep in print any book that sells at least 125 copies a year, something no commercial firm can afford to do. "The object of the university press," says Wilson, "is to publish as many books as it can without losing its shirt." > Savoie Lottinville, 60, another Rhodes scholar and a former boxing instructor and newspaper reporter, has built the University of Oklahoma Press into the nation...
...briefly with a Wall Street firm-as a messenger. At a shoe factory, his job was so lowly that "even the office girls wanted me to address them by their last names." He even worked for 20th Century-Fox, where he sent complimentary tickets for premières to dignitaries. "I now would like to apologize to former Mayor Wagner," said Joe, "whose ticket I gave to my grandmother...
...Beverly Hills, the Shapiro family nevertheless manages to reunite four times a year. It is no coincidence that the councils coincide with meetings of Maryland Cup Corp., headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Owings Mills, established 56 years ago by first generation Joseph and Nathan Shapiro. Although the firm went public six years ago, Shapiros still own 65% of the stock and dominate its board with ten of twelve family members, headed by Joseph, 79, as chairman and Nephew Arthur H., 57, as president. In what amounts to a neat feat for nepotism, Maryland Cup has quadrupled sales...
...been kept at arm's length with a tangle of capital regulations, bureaucratic delays, and impossible conditions. When Texas Instruments Inc. last year asked permission to set up a subsidiary to make integrated circuits, the government said O.K.-as long as it went fifty-fifty with a Japanese firm, agreed to limits on production and sales, and handed over valuable patents to other Japanese manufacturers. Naturally, Texas Instruments refused...