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...student with advanced placement in two fields, or perhaps even one, would benefit by being able to skip a general education course. Advanced placement signifies that college level work has been performed in the accredited subject. Making a student take a general education course in the same area thus often causes him to repeat material already covered and prevents him from exploring more advanced subject matter. The freshman who enters with advanced placement in European History, for example, would be reviewing much duplicate material in most of the basic social science courses, and because of a shortage of time...
...little good. He can, supposedly, take courses not regularly open to freshmen, but with a glib tongue he can talk his way into many upperclass courses anyway. Advanced placement also makes later course reduction easier, according to the Advanced Standing Office; however, the qualified and responsible student can often get course reduction without previous advanced placement...
...gadgets become increasingly complex-and the repair bills mount-every businessman is attacking the problem at all levels, from the small local repair shop up to the factory production line. Philco, Motorola and other manufacturers have found that it is often better to scrap the inevitable lemons that crop up in every model than try to repair them. Sears, Roebuck recently exchanged a Dallas customer's TV set five times before both company and customer were satisfied. To eliminate a troublesome production error, Norge spent thousands of dollars changing the transmissions in 27,000 washing machines. Major companies have...
...useless as a penguin with his hands." In part, it was a Latin love call that Caitlin could not resist ("those wonderful whirlpools of dankly greasy, black grass hair, that it was an insult to the Creator not to fondle"). Caitlin recalls every turn of their sometimes amusing, often pathetic affair. Elba proved as strait-laced as Laugharne, Wales, and the time came when the hissed words "Prostituta, prostituta" sounded in her ears...
Odds Don't Even. In Nashville, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. gave its reason for proposing to discontinue two passenger runs: "The crew often outnumbers the passengers...