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Direct Grants? Because more federal aid for schools is certain to come, and because Catholic parochial school enrollment is growing faster than public school enrollment, the issue will sharpen. About one out of every three U.S. babies is born to a Catholic family, and parochial schools now enroll as many as 60% of all schoolchildren in heavily Catholic communities. Examples: Chicago, 34%; Philadelphia, 39%; Pittsburgh...
Wilson will use these early non-league games to sharpen the team's offensive patterns and defense in preparation for the Ivy battles that will begin January 4 against Dartmouth...
...Baffle. But the challenge of pitching as well as he talks has settled Brosnan down. When the bench jockeys sharpen their gibes, the intent Brosnan professes to catch not a word: "I probably have a subconscious baffle to keep from hearing anything." A man who has spent eight months in analysis. Brosnan easily spots the main reason for his new success: he no longer relies on outthinking the batter. "Writing about pitching forced me to recognize how simple it is," he says. "Before, I thought it couldn't possibly be that simple. If I ever get back to thinking...
Power had a mental blueprint all ready for General Telephone's expansion. To escape the long shadow of Mother Bell he set up a central advertising and public relations department to sharpen the company's independent identity, prefixed the title "General Telephone" to each of General's 30 domestic and five foreign subsidiaries. As the company became better known-it serves such important cities as Long Beach, Calif., Erie, Pa., Fort Wayne, Ind. and Lexington, Ky.-he used its growing reputation to raise capital needed for growth, has raised more than $1 billion...
Granted a quiet spell this week in which to mull his runs, hits and errors, Rookie Rockefeller would certainly draw on his staff and savvy to sharpen his game before next week's Western swing-which may well determine whether he sticks in the big league...