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...study (the next: profiles of every Senator and Congressman). It is tendentious, hostile and superficial, and contains nary a footnote to indicate its sources. Hastily edited, the book is flawed by a number of factual errors and incorrect data. Examples: the book refers to "former Congressman Clem Long"; presumably Maryland Democratic Congressman Clarence Long. It cites Missouri Congressman Richard Boiling for putting his wife on the congressional payroll; she works in his office but is an unpaid volunteer. Senator Mike Mansfield, the book says, served in the House until 1955 (wrong); it adds that he was elected to the Senate...
...Penn State, Maryland, and West Virginia are usually strong contenders in the ECAC finals." Burke said. "They give golfing grant-in-aid and have longer seasons...
...when Jencks won a Knox fellowship that allowed him to spend a year at the London School of Economics. Returning to the State he went to Washington where he got involved in a number of projects including developing plans for the educational system in the new town of Columbia, Maryland, giving Congressional seminars on educational policy, and acting as a consultant to several White House committees and conferences. During his stay in Washington, Jencks also served as an editor of The New Republic...
...carried a batch of snappy sayings that put down women. ("She's a human dynamo-charging everything." "Many a gal has made it to the top because her dress didn't.") This year, however, the ladies get a slightly better shake. Acting on a letter from a Maryland woman who complained about male chauvinism. Editor Ray Geiger has included in the 1973 edition a two-page article stressing women's intellectual equality and right to equal opportunities. Admits Geiger: "The belief that 'it's a man's world' quite evidently becomes less valid...
...thing that attracts increasing numbers of U.S. educators to Open University is the fact that it is relatively cheap to operate: it costs about one-fourth as much as a conventional British university. Indeed, the new programs at California, Texas, Maryland and New Jersey universities will even import the same materials being used in England. Explains Rutgers Provost Kenneth Wheeler: "If we can use their texts and lectures and not have to develop our own, it would mean a savings of millions of dollars...