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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breadth of its approach, the committee resembles the University Committee on General Education which wrote General Education in a Free Society, Sizer explained that, like the original committee, the Ed School group will have three main aims...
...major contribution to contemporary economics is a study published in 1961. Entitled "Steel and the Postwar Inflation." It argues that the rapid increase in steel prices in the 1950's was the main reason for the decade's unexpectedly high rise of prices...
Drinking becomes the main release. False ID's are extremely easy to come by, and the Elbo Room, Student Prince and other bars along Atlantic Boulevard in Lauderdale are the most popular places all day and all night, except perhaps from 6 a.m. to noon. Time magazine was probably not far off in its estimate that each boy would consume an average of nine cans of beer a day, and each girl three. (The slogan, according to Time: "When in doubt, drink and shout...
...Glowing Mantle. Riccar is also champion in Japan's crowded (150 manufacturers) sewing machine industry, outselling its nearest competitor by a 3-to-2 margin; last year its sales reached $48 million. Main source of the company's strength: its carefully crafted machines-which cost up to 10% more than other Japanese makes-and its network of 700 stores in Japan, each manned by a skilled mechanic. The man who created this aggressive, sports-minded company is no glowing Mantle Sensitive and fragile, Hiraki is an accomplished painter of intricate Chinese-ink tableaux, likes to design Japanese gardens...
Anyway, he finds the traditional Tory style more congenial. The Prime Minister at first seemed an undistinguished, amateurish compromise, a member for years of the dreary House of Lords who would wilt under the heat of Commons debate. His main advantage was his aloofness from Harold Macmillan's weaknesses: the Common Market fiasco, the Profumo affair, the Skybolt fizzle, the Vassall scandal. But Sir Alec has cut a surprisingly effective figure, even against Harold Wilson, one of the House's sharpest debaters...