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And the grader, harried by having to read and grade as many as a hundred papers within a single week, must restrict his comment to a few marginal notes and a perfunctory summary at the end. The summary often goes something like this: "Able job. Well-organized and effectively argued...

Author: By Mark L. Krupuick, | Title: Frequent Undergraduate Papers: Means for Sustaining Interest | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

Last summer Nkrumah's government passed a law granting a 14?-a-day wage increase to gold miners. This wiped out the benefits of a subsidy the government was giving the shakier mines. The British owners threatened to close two of the mines, wiping out 2,000 jobs. Nkrumah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Civilized Way | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Last week Nkrumah changed his tack, decided that necessity is sometimes the mother of investment. To calm the fears of potential investors and save the miners' jobs, he offered to buy the stock in five marginal mines for $14.7 million, almost twice its value on the London Stock Exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Civilized Way | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Within 25 days the runway and buildings were completed. When the job was finished, the U.S. delivered eight surplus B-26 light bombers to the Guatemalan government. Last week five B-26s were at the new strip, along with one C-54 four-engined transport and four C46 twin-engined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: Mystery Strip | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Many of the students rated low felt that anonymity had been a cause of their weak efforts and low grades. Such men declared they had no faculty contact whatever, Whitla says, and they related this causally to their apathy and indifference. These average students in the survey. Whitla says, "could...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Whitla Study Finds Liberal Education Contingent on Contact With Faculty | 12/16/1960 | See Source »

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