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Indonesian pressure on Malaysia-originally urged in 1961 by the P.K.I. -has raised Malaysia's defense costs nearly fivefold (to $70 million this year, with an estimated $300 million anticipated by 1970). The Tunku's government has been forced to take emergency measures, including arrest without warrant and banning of strikes. Dissidents of every stripe, from straight Chinese Communists to reactionary Malay opportunists, are using the "confrontation" issue with Indonesia to serve their own purposes. Clearly the P.K.I, had plenty to celebrate last week...
...experimental English study program, which enables a bright student to read everything from Tolstoy to James Baldwin. He set up an honors program that required students to amass 200 credit hours, 40 more than the minimum for graduation; despite the hard work, the number of honors students increased fivefold. Along with the stiff academic program, Lewis pushed for vigorous extracurricular activities including "great books" discussions, dramatics, Greek lessons, and music from jazz to opera...
...being such an instrument, IRI has managed to do well for itself-in terms of volume. Since 1950, its sales have risen fivefold, to $2.5 billion last year. At the same time, high costs have held profits to less than 1% of sales. Whenever an Italian telephones or watches TV, he patronizes IRI. It also owns the seagoing Italian Line, the Alitalia airline, automaking Alfa Romeo, and three of the country's largest commercial banks...
...fever's acute onset could be blamed on the weather-hot, dry air had spread tree and grass pollen over wide areas. And the big sneeze could be linked with a long-range trend; in the last four decades, hay fever incidence has increased fivefold until nearly 9,000,000 people suffer from it each year in the U.S. Hay fever, says Philadelphia Allergist Dr.Philip Gottlieb, is a disease of civilization...
...other U.S. flag officer in World War II for his muzzle-to-muzzle duels with enemy coast artillery, after the war served twice as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations and headed the Naval War College before moving on to the presidency of Long Island University, whose enrollment increased fivefold during his administration; in the jetliner crash into Jamaica Bay, N.Y. that took 94 other lives, including that of his wife, Helen Jacobs Conolly, 62 (see THE NATION...