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...Baltic coast at Warnemünde, docks are being built to establish one of the world's largest ports. It will be open to Soviet shipping this year. A 15-year inland waterway scheme will link Berlin and Magdeburg by a system of canals and rivers with Russia's Kaliningrad (formerly East Prussian Königsberg) and Poland's industrial Bydgoszcz...
...largest club of them all, the HYDC claims 224 members, of whom roughly a quarter are "pledged to put in two or three hours a week." Partly because of its size, partly because of the energy of its leaders, the club has developed a myth and vocabulary of its own. The president's "machine" is regulary referred to, and "organizational dynamics," the theory of "democratic centralism," "first and second echelons of leadership elite," and "bureaucratic hierarchy" are all considered phrases quite necessary to the club's operation...
Harvard and Cambridge "have been married long enough so that any talk of separation would hardly seem well grounded," President Pusey said yesterday, nothing that the University is one of the city's largest employers, consumers, taxpayers, and attractions...
Students spend at least $5 million in the city and the University itself is "one of the largest, if not the largest single consumer in Cambridge," Pusey stated. In addition to enough food for 31/4 million meals, the University last year bought $1,325,000 worth of utilities, adding indirectly to the city's income...
...schools, and it helps to make the college curriculum challenging and interesting to well prepared students. Colleges and schools may find that sacrifices are necesary in order to make their contribution to the program, although as Advanced Placement is presently divided among colleges, the richest would make the largest--yet comparatively modest--contributions. They should recognize, however, that whether or not a student derives monetary benefit from the tests by his course exemptions, he is usually in no position to pay their full cost. To attempt to force him to do so would only reduce the scope of a program...