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...Yorker abroad, have just read your Jan. 12 article about Teamsters Feinstein and Hoffa's threat to force New York's finest into the union. If Police Commissioner Kennedy and Mayor Wagner would instruct their "finest" to pay a little "finer" attention to teamsters' traffic violations, I am sure this grandiose plan would fade very quickly. New York police have been coddling teamsters long enough by closing too many an eye in violation cases. Just let them get the same measure of tickets the average private New York driver is presented with - often unreasonably...
When Carleton College began to instruct the young of Northfield, Minn, in 1867, its faculty consisted wholly of a stout-souled Dartmouth graduate named Horace Goodhue Jr., who taught 14 classes a day. Nine years later and still not overstaffed, the college lost a good man when Treasurer Joseph Heywood tried to prevent an unauthorized withdrawal from the bank he served as cashier-and was gunned down by Jesse James's boys. If the Congregational college's endowment vanished with the Missouri badman, it did not weigh heavily in his saddlebags; at any rate, Carleton-named first...
...months a car must be parked on the even side during the day and until 1 a.m.; at 1 a.m. it must be towed to the odd side, and at 6 a.m. it must be returned to the even side. However, there is no sign posted which would so instruct a potential parker. Therefore, during the odd months he is fined for parking in an unposted (and therefore supposedly unrestricted) area, and in order to obey the unposted law he must park, at night, at least half the months of the year in an area which is posted...
Study & Llanos. The joint Colombia-Rockefeller project, directed by 16 Ph.D.s, has also produced a bumper crop of trained scientific personnel. The U.S. specialists instruct about 100 Colombians at Tibaitata, plus five other Latin Americans nominated by their governments. Another eight project scientists are usually sent to the U.S. on fellowships to take advanced degrees. The program's cost to date: about $12 million, of which $9,500,000 has been supplied by Colombia, the rest by the Foundation...
...Stillman Professorship, which Dawson will occupy for three to five years, was established by Chauncey D. Stillman '29, in honor of his father, a member of the Class of 1898. Stillman professors will instruct students in the history, theology, and doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. The Professorship of World Religions was founded by an anonymous gift, and is designed to provide future ministers with a knowledge about other religions...