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Columbia's tuition will rise from $1100 to $1450; the increase at Brown is from $1250 to $1400. In addition, board rates in Providence will go up $50. With these increases, minimum pay for a full professor at Brown will be $11,000 per annum, which corresponds more closely to salary levels at other Ivy League schools...
This is Columbia's third tuition rise in the last five years. Even so, President Grayson Kirk noted that before the latest addition tuition had covered only 40.5 per cent of the cost of attendance...
Builder's Hope. Deerfield's trouble is not so much hard-shell racism as pocketbook fear. Many residents are on-the-rise young executives in Loop corporation offices who went into mortgage debt to buy split-levels (average price: $23,000) for their growing families. With the steady rise of the real-estate market, the tightly budgeted family heads (average salary: $9,000) hoped to break even or turn a small profit by the time their companies assigned them to better jobs in other cities. But their hopes did not take into account the secret plans of Builder...
...citizens' committee idea in three words: passing the buck. Added Frank Stanton: "What is every body's business is nobody's business, and eventually becomes Government enterprise." Television should resist any sort of outside control. "We must be masters of our own house, and rise or fall on our own performance...
...cream topped off the meal. Mrs, Holstein's harvest from husband and guests: a burst of praise (spontaneous) for her "home-cooked" meal. Such jiffy cooking would have made Grandma shudder, but today it brings smiles of delight to millions of U.S. housewives. The remarkable rise of "conven-ience" or processed foods-heralded by the slogans "instant," "ready to cook" and "heat and serve"-has set off a revolution in U.S. eating habits, brought a bit of magic into the U.S. kitchen. It has freed the housewife from long hours at the stove, made her more conscious of sound...