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...that is obviously not the only, or even the main reason for record enrollments year after year. For those who are under no pressure to earn money, summer school is one alternative among several, like a job, or travel, or loafing (which, statistics show, almost no one does--or at least not without listing it under "travel.") It keeps you away from home but lets you live in a sociable place where the friends--and the action--are familiar. Taking a course or two makes the summer respectable, regadless of whatever else keeps you in Cambridge...
...best policy, then, would seem to be to redirect the Rangers, not to beat them or fool them. The Chicago police, following this line of thought, went so far as to arrange a peace treaty between the Rangers and their main rivals, the Disciples, last summer...
...managing editor, Robert Fichenberg. Later, Fichen-berg testified that he did not recall such a discussion. On that ground, Swietnicki was indicted for second-degree perjury-a somewhat recondite and rarely used charge having to do with the changing of testimony on an issue not pertinent to the main inquiry. He was duly tried, but acquitted...
...Wood teaching technique is composed of two main parts divided into six steps. Steps one and two are concerned with eliminating regressions and decreasing subvocalization. The student is instructed to use his closed fingers as a pacer to his eyes, running them under each line of print. According to past research, the fixation time spent in regressions equals ten per cent of total reading time. This is the easiest technique in the course and is acquired with little practice...
...term Congressman, it is astonishing that Conyers has been able to project a national image for himself. Essentially, he is a "bread-and-butter" man; his main concern is with improving the economic lot of the nation's Negro. He is more publicly interested in the matters politicians deal with -- poverty programs and Negro bloc voting power -- than he is with "blank consciousness." Yet his personality and intellect are such that he has not shut himself off from the more alienated part of the Negro population. An elected official, Conyers must be concerned with political -- and economic -- power...