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Ulbricht also summoned some 1,500 party functionaries for a pep talk. "After all," he said, "when housewives come into the stores and can't find milk or butter, they begin to criticize. You must understand that we have to pay for all our imports with expensive products. Therefore we can't import any more food than is absolutely necessary." Ulbricht also had a few words for the commissars about East Germany's restive farmers. "You must do a better job of explaining questions of international politics," urged Ulbricht, "so that all the farmers understand that...
U.S.C. fell to "footballism," a blend of pep rallies and fraternity frivolities-"the undergraduate mating dance," in one professor's words. The faculty fared worse. Presiding for 25 years was miserly, grandiloquent "Rufus Rex"-President Rufus von KleinSmid, who claimed to be paying professors between $4,200 and $7,500 a year while a faculty canvass showed the average to be $3,600 and the lowest to be only $2,600. "Lord, those were dreadful years," recalls one survivor. "You couldn't discuss ideas with anybody. Nobody...
...trouble is in her glands (which it almost never is). Another deliberate anxiety builder is the slogan, "Why grow old?" It introduces a prescription containing a teaspoonful of wisdom, such as the values of exercise and a balanced diet, diluted in an ocean of nonsense about wrinkle erasers and pep medicines. Actually, the less anxiety is associated with the inevitable aging process, the better are people's chances of growing old gracefully and with a sense of fulfillment...
...primary cause of the dropoff is political and psychological. In January, after his advisers reported increasing resistance from potential U.S. investors, Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin showed up at a Manhattan hotel to give a pep talk on the Commonwealth's economic possibilities to 500 U.S. businessmen. When he finished, the first question was: "What about Castro?" Fearful that Castroism has high export value, many U.S. businessmen wonder if Cuba's nationalization of U.S. investment (totaling $1.5 billion) may be an augury of things to come across the hemisphere...
...Astrojet gets its pep from a new engine: the Pratt & Whitney turbofan, which develops 17,000 Ibs. thrust. Basically, the turbofan sucks in a larger mass of air than regular jet engines to produce greater thrust with less fuel. A fan, set just inside the air intake (see diagram), pulls in the air. then blasts about 60% of it out through openings on the side of the jet pod to provide just under 50% of the engine's total thrust. The rest of the air is directed into the engine's burning chamber. The engine produces 20% more...