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Harmony was evident at lower levels too. While the Nixons were occupied with the Johnsons, the President-elect's aides met their counterparts in the White House for briefings, tours and lunch in the basement mess. For the first time, the terms of the 1964 Presidential Transition Act were in force. The act authorizes up to $900,000 for the expenses of the changeover and allows the President to make available extensive facilities, including office space, for his successor's advance party. Johnson went beyond the letter of the law by letting Nixon use his new, heavily armored...
...Director of the Financial Aid Office of Harvard College, said. He compared the mailing of applications with election returns, in which results come in last from the rural and Southern areas of the country. He said that the suburban and prep school students are counseled better than applicants from lower income groups so that the former would tend to send in applications earlier. He added that the growth of suburbia contributes to the rise in applications...
...take Naval Science as a fifth or sixth course. All 49 members of the Air Force program take Aerospace Studies as a fifth course. ROTC grades are, however, counted in computation of a student's rank list group, and a grade in a ROTC course will substitute for any lower grade...
...Cushion. Unless some such combination of circumstances brings a sharp improvement in its trade surplus, the U.S. will face a difficult dilemma. Many economists reason that the nation has moved into a new era, in which its industrial efficiency no longer provides a cushion against lower wage rates abroad. Yet if the U.S. substantially reduces the comparatively free access other countries enjoy to the world's largest market, it risks a prosperity-wrecking shrinkage in world trade. If the U.S. cooled its heated domestic economy enough to bring prices in line with those of foreign goods, the resulting unemployment would...
Sometimes the contribution made by anthropometry is quite modest. Because stewardesses are wearing short skirts these days, for example, engineers working on McDonnell Douglas' new DC-10 air bus have designed the emergency ladder leading from the lower service level to the abovedeck public cabin with rungs that are relatively far apart. "If dresses get long again," says a company spokesman, "we can always change ladders." A more far-reaching chore is that of doing something about bathtubs, which might make a lot more sense if they were equipped with reclining backs, more handholds and nonslip surfaces. The number...