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Three years after their first talk, Electrician Pick went out looking for uranium. After months of hardship, he struck it rich near Grand Junction, Colo., became one of the U.S.'s first uranium millionaires (so far, Pick's Delta Mine has made him about $10 million-TIME, Sept. 6). Before long, like many another really rich man, Pick found that the world's less fortunate swarmed toward him at the news of his success; his mail was stacked high with requests for everything from medical aid to a sports car for use in uranium prospecting...
...Torch-Song Background. Each year some 75 young women between the ages of 16 and 30 are accepted as postulants. They bring a "dowry" of $100 (it may be dispensed with in hardship cases), which goes toward financing the order's work. Postulants take no vows while undergoing a kind of basic training. After six months a postulant may receive the habit and white veil of a novice together with a new name. For the next two years she leads the full life of a Maryknoll sister, but also studies Catholic doctrine, the essentials of religious life ("Emily Post...
...find himself in acute financial difficulties under the present system. While his University fee pays for such expenses as ward costs in downtown hospitals, laboratory fees, and X-rays, it does not cover another major medical item, the surgeon's fee. And the current program has worked a hardship on married students. For they must still pay the University medical fee, even though many join a regular health insurance plan in order to obtain coverage for their families...
...prospective graduate student in the arts and sciences, then, looks forward to immediate financial hardship and the long range certainty of never making a very high salary if he chooses the teaching profession. Yet today's graduate students are the ones who must teach the bulge of war-baby students that will soon crowd into the nation's colleges. If mass education is not to slip into the chasm which many experts foresee, the continued high quality of these graduate students is more important than ever before. Obviously, there is no simple solution to these two types of problems...
Jones said the plan might work a hardship on teachers in large courses, but added that the closer relationship with students would help offset inconveniences. 'More scholarship money will also be freed by the cut in office expenses," he said...