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...peaches that sells for 40? to 60? at the retail level. Farmers charge that the cost of a tractor less than 30 years ago was equivalent to the selling price of six hogs; now it equals 100. The purchasing power of the French peasant, it is estimated, will shrink 17% this year alone-while government policy permits massive imports of competing foreign meats, fruits and vegetables...
John Jay Iselin, 40. As federal and foundation support for public television continues to shrink, the president of the Manhattan-based Educational Broadcasting Corporation and boss of its lively station, WNET (Channel 13), is forced to scramble for funds to keep his operations going. His innovative approach to programming has brought viewers The American Family and the Theater in America series, VD Blues and ballet, movie classics and public affairs programs. By stationing fund raisers in front of elegant stores like Tiffany's, he has helped boost the number of contributors to Channel 13 from...
...committee, along with Slingerland and Evans, proposed a new structure for the Expos program. They were low on money and overburdened with large classes, so they arrived at an obvious conclusion: cut back the number of students in Expos, and the money will go around better as class sizes shrink. They proposed an exemption from Expos for students with SAT and advanced placement scores above a cutoff level...
ALEXANDER PORTNOY complained that he was living in the middle of a Jewish joke--the Jewish joke of his whole life, as told to his shrink Dr. Spielvogel. That joke ended with Spielvogel supplying the punch line: "And now vee may perhaps to begin...
Psychologists maintain that the most assiduous procrastinators are women, though many psychologists are (at $50-plus an hour) pretty good delayers themselves. Dr. Ralph Greenson, a U.C.L.A. professor of clinical psychiatry (and Marilyn Monroe's onetime shrink), takes a fairly gentle view of procrastination. "To many people," he says, "doing something, confronting, is the moment of truth. All frightened people will then avoid the moment of truth entirely, or evade or postpone it until the last possible moment." To Georgia State Psychologist Joen Pagan, however, procrastination may be a kind of subliminal way of sorting the important from...