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...year-round calendar allows them to earn B.A.s in the standard four years; the jobs help them learn more than students at sheltered schools. Alexander's parting hope: that "we continue to be a force for constructive change in American higher education." The University of Wyoming is losing lean, granitic Samuel Howell Knight, 70, creator of the so-so school's one real claim to academic fame-a crack geology department that lures graduate students from Yale, Stanford and other distant schools. Geologist Knight spent his youth studying the badlands the way a city kid takes...
...river ambulance Schweitzer will use. ("Brancardier! Brancardier!" [stretcher bearer] the oarsmen cry when they arrive with an emergency.) The hospital compound is without telephone, running water or refrigeration, has electricity only in the main building, which houses the tiny, antiquated operating theater. Sterilization is carried out in an outdoor lean-to and the only toilet is an outhouse for the use of the foreign staff...
Mkele, whose earnings have reached $600 a month, a stratospheric sum for a Bantu, finds his fellow Bantus becoming so sophisticated about advertising that they are beginning to lean toward the same prestige symbols as Americans. Bantu men looking for British respectability in their attire have long bought the most expensive clothes they could afford. Mkele suggested that stores also stock "a dignity bag in the form of a reasonably priced attaché case." When they hit the Bantu market, the attaché cases sold like-well, like attaché cases sell along the New Haven Railroad...
Cassius Marcellus Clay was in Londontown last week, and he had a lean and hungry look. "I am the prettiest fighter you ever did see," he cried. "The prettiest-and the loudest." Five was Cassius' magic number, the round in which he promised to demolish Henry Cooper, 29, a onetime house plasterer who claims the British and Empire Heavyweight championships. But that was two weeks off. In the meantime, there were 55,000 tickets to be sold, and Cor, luv, wot larks...
Reduced Panic. Many of the new giants have also gone public, and the two largest are on the Big Board. They have replaced part-time accountants with cost-conscious controllers, lean to computers and automated distribution warehouses in place of production charts and pushcarts. On a shopping spree of their own, they are buying up smaller companies, expanding into Europe, financing on Wall Street. After hearing their business for years compared to a crap game, they are finding themselves lionized by analysts because of their sustained earnings and growth. "After 40 years in the business," admits Majestic Specialties' President...