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...growing domain with an annual enrollment of 128,000 students and a $12 million budget. The bustling prosperity of the extension school confirms Frandson's belief that each of the school's 4,255 courses should be titled and designed like a new television series-to grab the viewer's attention. In the extension school, therefore, a course in American history from 1940 to 1950 is called "The Cultural Milieu of a Decade of War and Peace: a nostalgic reappraisal of an era that dramatically changed our world...
Meanwhile, life inside the picket-surrounded Post building is becoming less hectic. The ninth-floor executive dining room is still serving as an all-night diner. Executives still have to pick their way through piles of dirty laundry to grab sleep, on cots set up in their offices, between an all-day shift behind the desk and an all-night shift putting out the paper. But only 100 employees are still living in the building, down from 200 at the beginning of the strike. All but one of the paper's nine presses have been repaired...
...should be longer (6 ft., v. the standard 5 ft.) and wider, have a contoured back to fit the curvature of the spine, a comfortable place to sit while foot washing and shampooing, and a hand spray for rinsing. Showers should be larger, have continuous wrap-around grab-bars and different-shaped handles located away from the water source so that the soap-blinded bather can adjust water temperatures by feel...
Nigeria. The government at present owns 55% of the oil operations of Gulf, Mobil, Texaco and a Shell-British Petroleum joint venture. And as recently as August, it disclaimed any attempt to grab for more. Nonetheless, some oilmen expect an effort at complete nationalization soon...
Paco Canales and Peter Tetlow took first and second in the 1000-yard freestyle. Canales covered the distance in 9:57.9 in what was described as a tactical race meant to grab the points but also to save up for the big meet with Army this weekend...