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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy effected their habits. Everyone knows, for example, that big universities do not promote men simply because they are good teachers. But there is no objective evidence that this has subverted the quality of university teaching. It is possible that the personal challenge of facing a room full of live students forces a professor to teach as well as he knows how, and that more tangible incentives such as promotion would be superfluous and ineffective...
Strange Treadfellows. In Philadelphia, a classified advertisement in the Bulletin of the Philadelphia Herpetological Society offered to trade a "live adult Komodo Dragon for Chrysler fire engine and three snowshoes...
...first pleasant chores of a freshman Congressman is to decide how he will spend some $40,000 a year that he rates for office help. He can hire his clerks, secretaries and office managers from the pool of old pros who live and work around Washington (and run the chance that his secrets may soon be on the grapevine), or he can reward his friends and relatives with jobs. One hazard: if he puts someone with his own family name on the federal payroll, his open nepotism may well backfire when the payroll records are made public. Last week came...
...Last week, climaxing a two-year house-by-house survey, the City Planning Commission brought forth a hardheaded proposal: the only way to save New York from death by overcrowding is to regulate the use of residential buildings so that no more than 10,940,000 people can ever live in the city-compared to the 55 million who could legally crowd in under present zoning laws. Taking aim at an antiquated zoning code, the survey recommended: ¶ A quick halt to the conversion of apartments to rooming houses. ¶Provisions encouraging ground-level plazas around skyscrapers and apartment houses...
...only veterans, or students with financial, marital, or health reasons that necessitate off-campus living will be eligible to live out. Veterans under the sixmonth military plan are not eligible to petition for outside-living permission...