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...ranks among the top ten state schools in Rhodes scholars. Its 1,000,000-volume Bizzell Memorial Library houses the world's finest collection of materials on the history of science. Its petroleum-science program-backed by gifts from the state's oil industry-has produced one-fourth of the nation's geologists and petrochemical engineers. Although best known for its strength in science, O.U. has one of the nation's few campus-run schools of ballet; last year it became the first U.S. university to present a full-scale production of Giselle...
...make another play to extend his interests across the Saudi Arabian peninsula, perhaps hoping to add the oil-rich sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf to his coffers. His boardinghouse reach even stretches southward across the Gulf of Aden, where he is aiding Somali terrorists who lay claim to one-fourth of the northern territory of Jomo Kenyatta's Kenya. The Kenyan government, incensed by evidences of Egyptian aid to the rebels, called on Nasser to cease supplying them and said that it is ready to go to war with Somalia unless the border conflict ceases...
...year, Brazil's population increased almost roughly by the equivalent of the total population of Uruguay (pop. 2.7 million). Yet Brazil's farm tools and techniques are so antiquated that the country actually produces less corn and wheat per acre than it did 30 years ago. Moreover, one-fourth of what it does produce spoils before it reaches market because of poor transportation and storage facilities. One of the few crops that Brazil produces in abundance-coffee-is too abundant; saddled with $220 million a year in coffee supports, Costa's government is paying farmers to uproot...
...Food and Drug Administration has decided that, effective June 1, children's aspirin must be packaged with not more than 36 tablets to a bottle, each tablet of not more than 1¼-grain strength, or one-fourth the potency of the conventional tablet for adults. The FDA's Dr. Basil G. Delta figures that one grain of aspirin per pound of body weight is the danger threshold. So, if a five-year-old weighing the average 45 Ibs. for his age gobbled a whole 45-grain bottle of the future children's aspirin, he would...
More Men. One reason for the new militancy is that, while salaries in grade and high schools have risen spectacularly over the past decade (from an average of $4,239 to $6,821), teachers still earn far less than many workers of comparable training and less responsibility. During the same period, the number of men in public-school teaching has risen from one-fourth to one-third. Today, says Ralph Paul Joy, an assistant director of the National Education Association, teachers are too aroused merely to present a "timid, trembling salary request on ditto paper" and hold meetings merely...