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...lower level psychology course, which was limited to 150 last year, had prepared for 400 students. Within half an hour after the doors of Mem Hall opened, the quota had been filled...
...roundhouse turn. After a year-long study of the New Haven and its pyramiding deficits, the commission decided that subsidies might indeed be the answer. Testifying before a Senate Commerce subcommittee last week, ICC Chairman Everett Hutchinson, with the support of nine of the commission's eleven mem bers, presented a plan which, he argued, would save commuter railroads from "a plunge into disaster." Under the ICC proposal the Government would give the railroads with the heaviest commuter traffic the equivalent of their direct investment in passenger operations and, in addition, would match dollar for dollar such...
...been unable to make his rounds, which usually netted him $4 a day. Now broke, he is living off friends. He was forced reluctantly into his first pair of shoes. His family and neighbors were worried: "Will they let him come back to Pakistan?" "Will he bring back a mem-sahib [white wife]?" What was worse, the bewildered Bashir heard nothing from anyone in the U.S. about his trip. The reasons: the Digest backed out of sponsoring him; People-to-People was having second thoughts; Johnson's formal invitation unaccountably bogged down in the U.S. embassy in Karachi...
...highlight in the evening for story-starved pressmen was the appearance of a nude visitor during the intermission of the Glee Club-RCS concert in Mem Hall. Dripping wet, the man wandered in muttering "everybody's dreaming, I'm not really here." Some 'Cliffes thought it was colorful...
...illerate, but he is not stupid, and he is as keenly aware as any anthropologist of the social divisions in his own world. He will expect the American teacher to live as a teacher, not as a peasant. The proper and desirable course of action for the Peace Corps mem- bers is for him to live on approximately the same level as citizens of the host country who have equivalent training and hold equivalent positions...