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Congratulations on your clarion call [June 7] to American business corporations! Only a small fraction of the nation's business corporations are contributing to higher education. Let's hope that the unconvinced firms see the light before it's too late-before they try to recruit the college graduate who isn't there...
While Haya seems slightly weaker, so does Architect Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 52, whose Acción Popular Party finished a fraction of a percentage point behind Haya last year. He now has the support of Peru's Castroites and many Communists, which will win him some votes but cost him the wealthy conservatives who filled his campaign coffers in 1962. Even more damaging to his image, after last year's election, Belaúnde ordered his Congressmen-elect to renounce their seats, disguised himself as an Indian and raced off to the rebellion-prone city...
...large fraction of Radcliffe's tuition receipts is used to reimburse Harvard for instruction given to Radcliffe students. Presumably, the University will raise this charge when its own tuition increase goes into effect, thereby forcing Radcliffe to raise its own tuition...
...late 1930s, the only protection against pneumococcal pneumonia was serum prepared in animals. It was neither reliable nor safe. Then came the sulfas, and an intensified search for better medications for both prevention and treatment. Toward war's end, the armed forces developed a vaccine from a fraction of the pneumococcus microbe itself. But six different types were needed. And by then, penicillin was becoming available. It was a great pneumococcus killer. Doctors ignored the vaccines...
Harvard had entered today's events at Brandeis with a 45-23 bulge over the Eagles, and their lead had seemed so secure that coach Bill McCurdy entered only a fraction of his team, resting many of his stars for this Saturday's Heptagonal meet at Princeton...