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...food problem. Though he called for the nation to emulate him, Prime Minister Shastri is about the only Indian who dug up his lawn for a garden, and his skip-a-meal-a-week plan is also largely ignored. Snaps one young Indian editor, who refuses to skimp on meals: "Why should I suffer for the folly of others...
...socialist deodorant. Still, a mass-consumption society is a long way off. For one thing, four-fifths of the country's production remains in industrial goods; for another, the average wage of $ 151 a month does not go much beyond bare necessities. The East German worker must skimp to buy coffee at $9 a lb., a TV set at $500, or the cheapest 26 h.p. car at $2,000. Last year 62,698 cars were made for a country of 17 million people; naturally, the waiting lists are long...
...council sees it, key solutions include solid sabbaticals to retread teachers, summer institutes that really teach English (many just skimp it), helpful supervision by master English teachers rather than bureaucratic administrators. The majority of high school teachers, says the council, "have never had an opportunity to confer with a college professor of English or English education or with a special English supervisor." Without reforms, warns James R. Squire, the council's executive secretary, English classes across the country will go on wallowing in "dull, lifeless teaching" devoid of "one iota of excitement...
...rent adjustment fund will put some flexibility back for students admitted but denied aid, and for others trying to skimp on costs," Glimp explained...
Even at favored universities, a flood of federal money for some specific purpose makes one department a rich empire, leaves others poor foundlings. Princeton's Goheen sees "a marked and dangerous trend" to skimp on undergraduate education. More and more professors now devote full time to research-often far off-campus-and see no undergraduates...