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...merger (still subject to approval by both boards of directors and stock holders) was fostered by the handiest kind of broker: Prentice-Hall President Carroll V. Newsom, onetime (1956-61) president of New York University, who is a member of RCA's board. After the merger, he will be joined on the board by Ettinger...
...news. Magazines such as Surfer and Surfing Illustrated have appeared on the stands. Surf songs keep deejays spinning even in Chicago, which is relatively surfless. And from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border, when the word goes out that "surf's up!" whole families go streaming toward the handiest stretch of Pacific shore. "Ninety percent are beginners," broods Bill Cooper, executive secretary of the U.S. Surfing Association. "Half of them give it up in a year or two, but then there are more-and the real danger of surfing is in numbers. One surfer gets knocked off his board...
...luxuriant white beard to 500 rapt students at four Negro colleges in Louisiana and Mississippi. His subject: the religious roots of Greek drama. The phone bill was $100, a pittance paid by the Fund for the Advancement of Education, which thus demonstrated one of education's cheapest, handiest new ideas...
...Government's employees in Washington are college boys and girls, working during their vacations at everything from ghosting speeches for Congressmen to sweeping out the Senate barbershop and digging graves at Arlington National Cemetery. Most of these toilers are Washington-area residents filling the handiest vacation jobs. They type, file and tabulate in a summer version of the classic civil-service grind. But among the roughly 2,000 students with more exciting work are college-sponsored "interns,'' who have proliferated in recent years through the pioneering efforts of Dartmouth, Wellesley and Yale to find lively Government jobs...
...High blood pressure is indeed a disease, affecting about 10 million people in the U.S. Handiest diagnostic sign: a diastolic reading consistently above...