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This week's New Delhi conference will examine new government proposals requiring India's universities to take "rigorous and effective measures" for raising academic standards and ensuring discipline, but officials are not hopeful. Says an officer of the government's University Grants Commission, with a shrug: "After all, we are a very poor country...
...such evidence of her kookiness, a Clansman will shrug his shoulders and call her "a ring-a-ding," using a Clan word that stands for anything puzzling, hard to define, but generally wonderful...
Against such practices, most U.S. publishers can only shrug helplessly. The pressmen's union is one of the five members of the International Allied Printing Trades Association, which also includes the International Typographical Union, the International Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union, the International Photo-Engravers' Union and the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders. Long and powerfully entrenched, the printing-craft unions have brought the make-work science of featherbedding to a level that is the envy of organized labor. Modern presses can roll at 60,000 papers an hour, but at shift-change time, crews frequently cut speed...
...Accept." The West was talking about a foreign ministers' conference on Germany for May n, he said with a grin, and "I'm giving away a Soviet government secret, but I'll tell you anyway that we accept." Of course, he added with a patient shrug, Russia would rather have a summit meeting first: "It would be better if the heavyweights-the chiefs of govern ment-undertook to clear away the enormous debris that has accumulated in international affairs. Let them shift the boulders out of the way and start removing the rubble . . . But if such...
Majority might be subtitled Halfway Around the World with Molly Goldberg (radio and TV Actress Berg's 29-year-long other life). She is the past mistress of the eloquent shrug, the rising inflection, the beautifully timed thrusting palm-up, down and out-the gently jabbing elbow ("So-it's settled...