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...More Respected School. Litchfield's defenders argue that he is being made a scapegoat for lax fiscal supervision by Pitt trustees. A dynamic chancellor is too busy churning out ideas, they say, to audit the cash flow. They also argue that in upgrading Pitt, Litchfield chose a costly course: increased emphasis on graduate teaching and research, which require expensive facilities and slight the revenue-producing undergraduate enrollment...
What made the matter more complex was that Tino by then had grown so cocky and creative that he bypassed even the lax warehouse inspectors, forged some of his own receipts. By mid-1963, he had contracted to buy 20,000 tank cars of oil-an astonishing 1.2 billion Ibs., worth about $120 million. With every 10 shift in price, he stood to gain or lose $12 million...
...districts will have to desegregate at least four grades for the school year beginning in September, and all twelve grades by the 1967-68 term. Whether anything approaching true integration will be achieved rests partly on the Negro's willingness to fight-and local Negro leadership is often lax. Perhaps hardest to overcome, as in the North, will be de facto residential segregation; predominantly Negro neighborhoods are bound to have predominantly Negro schools...
...thyroid gland is lax, my metabolism too slow to burn up actually normal rations of food...
...Yearbook attracts several score serious amateurs who don't put in the time and effort required by other groups. A typical yearbook photographer is over-equipped, more arty than artistic, more bored-wealthy than committed. Given the lax deadlines of the yearbook and the variety of its pages, yearbook work tends to lack discipline...