Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...higher education in the next decade? This week Harvard Economist Seymour E. Harris, a skilled man with a budget, did some sophisticated figuring for the Central Association of College and University Business Officers' meeting at Purdue University...
...Federal Government that is not carrying its load in higher education," Harris said. Example: in the 14 years ending last year, the annual state and local share of U.S. educational expense rose from 24% to 34% ($1.2 billion), while the federal contribution declined from 36% to 15% ($535 million). Harris thinks the federal share should rise by $500 million yearly. With state and local governments chipping in an additional $500 million (perhaps $1 billion "under great pressure"), the total governmental share for colleges could be about $1.5 billion yearly...
...notes, the comparable costs to a college have risen to $500-requiring a $400 subsidy a year for the average student. At the same time, family income after taxes has risen by $3,000. If tuitions are scaled accordingly-and scholarships are also expanded-the net income from higher tuition could be about $2.5 billion yearly...
...flings himself down from the top of a cliff, offering his own body to feed the tigers' hunger. The story is told consecutively in a single picture, as in the case of some modern comic strips and many early Renaissance paintings. With Buddhist confidence in reincarnation on a higher plane, the youth gives himself up as simply as a candle flame pinched from its wick. He lies peacefully under the tigers' tearing fangs. The whole dark and wild episode is painted with the utmost delicacy, even serenity. It looks like the imaginary scenes that small boys find among...
...Future. What the U.S. could expect in the future and what might well send Wall Street's stock market higher still was contained in the predictions of industry's executives. Ford Vice President Charles R. Beacham predicted that auto sales in 1959 would top 1958 by 40%. U.S. Rubber General Sales Manager Herbert D. Smith predicted record sales of 94.5 million tires this year for the replacement market, to say nothing of the 29 million tires that go on new cars...