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...founded proved as durable as it is diminutive. It is formally known today as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and, though international surveys often omit its statistics entirely, it is a thriving charter member of the European Coal and Steel Community and the Common Market, as well as the smallest country in the United Nations, in whose behalf it sent an armed and eager platoon to Korea...
...College mailed out letters of admission to 1362 applicants to the Class of 1967 this morning--the smallest number to be admitted to any freshman class since...
With only 70 cadets, Harvard's AFROTC is one of the smallest in the country. About ten cadets are graduated yearly at a cost of $7,000 per graduate, which is nearly the average for all 300 schools in the program. The Air Force also trains the Harvard cadet in much the same manner as that of any other college; he marches as often, takes the same standard course material, and receives the same allowance as the cadet, at say, Alabama State...
...reflected increased processing and distribution costs; prices received by farmers actually declined during the 1950s, and have only slowly inched upward under Freeman (see chart). The average U.S. family spent 26% of aftertax income for food 15 years ago; today food takes only 19%. Says Freeman: "This is the smallest share of income spent for food by any people, anywhere in the world, at any time in modern history." In contrast, expenditures for food take 30% of the average family's income in Britain, 45% in Italy, more than 60% in Russia...
...them for Africans; they get suspicious when a truck drives off with their hard-earned shillings, and are apt to raise quite a fuss. For Africans, Barclays sets up offices wherever it can, even if they are only one-room huts. Barclays has learned the necessity of accepting the smallest deposit (one chief arrived with an entire tribal retinue to deposit $1.40) and of honoring some unusual checks, including one written on a hard-boiled egg and another on the side of a squealing piglet. The bank also stresses service; one isolated manager regularly cuts his best customer...