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...Funnel Function. This places unusual demands on the junior college, which often runs honors courses for gifted students at the same time that it offers remedial courses in English grammar and mathematics to salvage the lower-ranking high school graduate. And in its unique function as an educational funnel, it must counsel its students on which of the three broad paths each is best able to follow...
...bridges overnight. Says a U.S. military officer in Laos: "A 500-lb. bomb makes a hole five feet deep and ten feet across. With 50 coolies filling the hole and packing it with a battering ram the road can be ready again the next day." Moreover, the North Vietnamese funnel much aid to the Viet Cong along routes far removed from Laos. Cambodia is now a big supply depot for Communist men and equipment moved by sea from North Viet Nam. It remains to be seen whether Washington's quiet escalation can really curb Hanoi's undeclared invasion...
...mining interests in Rhodesia. Since then, it has been gobbling up enterprises and creating new ones in seven south-central African nations, and it is hungrily casting about for more. Last week Lonrho began operating a 187-mile, $11.2 million pipeline that it built through the jungle to funnel crude oil from the Mozambique port of Beira to a new Rhodesian refinery that will supply the growing markets in Rhodesia and Zambia...
...program. All young party members will henceforth have to take part in "collective productive labor"; high-school and college graduates have already been transferred to rural areas. High-school curriculums are being revamped to comprise 60% academic work and 40% manual labor, and universities are tightening their admissions to funnel more high-school graduates onto the farm or factory assembly line...
...figure in planning the economic program being drawn up for 1965 and beyond. He helped draw up, with Walter Heller, the revised stand-by tax-cutting power the President will probably ask Congress to approve as an anti-cyclical weapon, is working on a new scheme to funnel excess federal revenues back to the states whenever a surplus is generated. His strong feeling that federal spending is too cumbersome to effect short-range control of the economy will probably sway Johnson away from the stand-by public works and other spending devices that were favored by the Kennedy Administration. When...