Word: freshers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emerson College in Pacific Grove, Calif., is-well, like a college. But not much. Though legally chartered and all that jazz, Emerson shuns entrance exams, grades, degrees and administrators. The result is one of the fresher, if freakier, experiments in U.S. education...
...Fresher Faces. If Kennedy next week becomes the youngest President-elect in history, he will move on Washington like an arrow. Already Clark Clifford, an old White House hand from the days of Truman, is at work on a what-to-do program for the transition months between election and inauguration. Plans are under way for a complete overhaul of the executive branch: Clifford has a list of 204 top jobs that would be filled by Dec. i, another 406 to be filled by Jan. 1. Clifford is working closely with the Brookings Institution on a table of organization patterned...
...President Lyndon Johnson as his chief operative and liaison man. He plans to take a personal hand in congressional affairs as well: "I know more about them, having served in Congress for 14 years." The Cabinet and, in fact, the whole Government would be filled largely with younger men, fresher faces. Jack Kennedy owes very little in the way of political debts-he has been his own best promoter and manipulator-and can choose his team as he pleases. Since he is not a state Governor and has no incumbent Administration in Washington to provide Democratic manpower, he would have...
...only wins the bread but brings it home. Even if there is a store near by, his wife firmly believes that food brought from town is better and fresher. Every night after work the "dacha husband" (as Chekhov called him) goes shopping, list in hand, and patiently queueing. Then, laden like a pack mule, he must wedge his way into a crowded train. His worst problem: kerosene, still the main cooking fuel in outlying places. The railroad bars it as dangerous, and if the dacha husband is caught carrying it, he will be put off the train and fined...