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Contrary to popular myth, bureaucracies do not run on momentum alone. They need people. Yet the Nixon Administration has been operating for months with one-fourth of its sub-Cabinet posts either empty or filled with stand-in appointees. At a recent celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, eight of eleven high department offices were represented on the podium by acting officials. As they were introduced to the bureaucracy-wise audience of mainly H.E.W. workers, the ludicrousness of their transient titles touched off muffled titters that soon turned to roars of laughter...
...Association of American Colleges queried 451 of its members, most of them private institutions, and found that only one-fourth had more applicants than in 1972. Similarly, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges reported that applications to the nation's 109 major state university systems and campuses had dropped off by 4.2%-the first overall decline in ten years. There were exceptions to the trend, of course. As a group, the eight Ivy League colleges had 3.3% more applicants than last year. The number declined by 3.4% at Harvard but rose by 8% at Yale...
...survey, submitted by HEW's Office of Education, said that only 9.7 per cent of female faculty members hold tenured positions, while one-fourth of the male faculty in public and private institutions of higher learning are professors...
...Everything from frames and brakes to transmissions and exhaust systems is handtooled. A team of four mechanics takes two weeks to build an engine, each one painstakingly tuned to meet the specific demands of different tracks. The end products are so prized that some professional drivers buy their stock cars from Petty. The going price: $30,000. Petty Enterprises grossed slightly more than $1,000,000 last year; Richard's purses contributed one-fourth of that...
...screening committee has broken down into four groups for preliminary screening of the candidates. Each group will screen one-fourth the candidates, choosing the top three or four prospects from each quarter, and will then bring these before the whole committee...