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...Government files. Result: for the first time in federal history, the Government two months ago began throwing away old files faster than it filled new ones. Such space saving has enabled Mansure to cut the Government's leased office and warehouse space 10%, and he expects to lop off another 7% before next July. A by-Droduct of the housecleaning is that GSA last year bought 96,000 file cabinets at $60 apiece. This year it will need only 8,000 new ones...
...faced the alternatives of absorbing heavy deficits or buying football teams--a choice dictated first by the fact that Harvard's huge athletic plant can be maintained only if oiled by gate receipts (otherwise its cost cuts too deeply into the College's more important functions), and second, that lop-sided games all but wipe out those receipts...
...joined the ranks of states offering substantial aid to medical students. Up to 14 students may now borrow up to $1,500 apiece from the state in each school year. For every year they practice in a rural area or small town (pop. 5,000 or less), Georgia will lop $1,000 off their loan...
Three times a day for most of her 17 years, a lop-eared Holstein-Friesian cow by the name of Pansco Hazel has been herded into a white barn on the dairy farm of Frank Pellissier near Whittier, Calif, and milked. Her average daily production: 37 qts. In her time, purebred Hazel (out of Hazel Colantha Rag Apple de Kol by Pansco Sequoia Adventurer) has seen hand milking bow to the machine age, has had her milk pasteurized and homogenized, has had 13 calves and is again pregnant...
...Belgian Composer Raymond Chevreuille, had the contestants in an uproar. Complained one: "Bartok and Prokofiev are duck soup compared to it." Said another, singling out two men who happened to be among the 13 contest judges: "Even Rubinstein and Casadesus couldn't play it." Concours officials agreed to lop off the third movement for the decisive test...