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...merge with Commercial Credit Corp., which opted instead to merge with Control Data Corp. Last week the two losers got together on the rebound. In a complicated swap of Lorillard stock for that of Loew's (value of the exchange: at least $418 million), the two companies plan to merge. Loew's will be the dominant survivor...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman will play a key role. For two months, he has been conferring with party leaders, commissioning polls of voter attitudes toward Humphrey and drawing up an overall battle plan. For months, 32 individual study groups have been working up position papers for the Vice President. Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Walter Heller oversees seven economic study units; Columbia Kremlinologist Zbigniew Brzezinski coordinates nine foreign policy groups; other panels are headed by veteran Government advisers like Francis Keppel, former Commissioner of Education, and Jerome
Nationwide, graduate school applications are actually running about 10% higher than a year ago. Some schools, anticipating a shortage, have accepted more than the usual number of applicants and may wind up overcrowded. Yale Law School, which can handle about 175 first-year students, now finds that 230 plan to enroll. Brandeis expects about 30 more liberal arts graduate students than it wants. The University of Miami figures that graduate enrollment will increase by 14%. Grad school acceptances by the University of Southern California are running 20% above those of last year. And at U.C.L.A., Director of Planning Adrian Harris...
...lots, a cemetery, public buildings and six public commons. The company donated land for schools and churches. The first building-which is among those to be wrecked-went up in 1838, the last in 1915. Over the century of Amoskeag's existence, the architectural integrity of the original plan was preserved. When new buildings rose to make room for the cotton gins, spinning machines and semiautomatic looms that were among the first mass-production machinery developed, they echoed the plain, geometric brick facades, capped by prim towers, of the original. So it remained until urban renewal plans were formulated...
...many owners, and it would take an enormous amount of money to save it." Even old mill hands express little nostalgia at Amoskeag's passing. Mrs. Bertha Halde, 84, has fond memories of her girlhood days as a weaver of gingham, but she says of the destruction plan: "That's progress. The buildings are no good anyway, are they? They...