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...earning power of big corporations. Pre-tax corporate profits are now running some $13 billion a year above the level of 1961, when the business upturn began-a gain of nearly 30%. A few weeks ago, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. reported profits for 1964 of $1,700,967,000-an alltime record for U.S. corporations. But last week General Motors, despite a six-week strike last year, surpassed that with its report of a $1,735,000,000 profit, an increase of 9% over...
...Force program involves a six-week encampment between the sophomore and junior years and a full course each year during the last two years of college. Drill and related activities are no longer required during the academic year. Lt. Col. Edward M. Lyman, professor of Air Science, stressed yesterday that the new program "will not interfere with other student activities and obligations...
Under the new system, a student wishing to join AFROTC will apply in the spring of his sophomore year. The following sumer he will attend a six-week training camp, which will fulfill all drill requirements. He will take one full ROTC course in both his junior and senior year, and upon graduation will receive commission as a second lieutenant...
...Six leading Boston-area private schools* just finished a six-week experiment in teaching English and science to 250 elementary and junior high pupils from Boston public schools. Giving knowledge in big doses and small classes (ten students), the program aimed at instilling a thirst for learning that would grow during the normal school year. The same goal was behind Exeter's SPUR (Special Program for Underprivileged Regions) plan, which brought 20 eighth-grade pupils and four local teachers from Atlanta, St. Louis, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to New Hampshire for classes in Exeter's summer session. Next summer...
...Last week after a six-year run in Prague and several tours of Europe, Laterna Magika arrived for a six-week stand in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. On opening night a full and fashionable house sat still for a 2½hour show that started with a swift skid through schmaltz (a 90-minute medley of scenes from Jacques Offenbach's romantic opera, Tales of Hoffmann) and finished with a swift skip through the silly side of the medium (a hilarious short subject in which the actors in one movie wander accidentally into another...