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...first section of courses, Theory, is the smallest. Beer gives 112 and 113, Parliamentary and Comparative Government, respectively, with increasing authority but with notable variations in degree of interest. Fainsod's Know Your Enemy 1 (Gov. 115: Dictatorship and the Government and Politics of the Soviet Union) has been a great box office success since the Cold War began. Topping off the group is Friedrich's weighty 106, which "traces the development of political thought and jurisprudence from Greek and Jewish antiquity . . . to the nineteenth century and relates it to cultural and institutional growth." This course is open only...
...best any man did in one session was to win $16 of Mosteller's money; however, the man who followed the odds most carefully and took only the best risks was the smallest winner after the eight-week experiment ended. Mosteller attributed that fact to the short-run nature of the experiment...
Thanks to devaluation of the pound, some of the smallest of the British cars were priced well under U.S. cars. Nuffield's two-passenger MG Midget was down to $1,850 delivered in New York, Austin's five-passenger sedan was tagged at $1,480 (its "hardtop" is higher), and Ford Motor Co. Ltd.'s small, four-passenger Anglia...
Leisure Activity. The three main groups in U.S. Judaism-Orthodox, Conservative and Reform-have all profited by the new trend, but the Conservative most of all. Though it is still the smallest* of the three, the younger generation is attracted to it because it "seems best able to combine a considerable degree of traditionalism in the forms of religion with a modern and 'American' outlook in everything else." Meanwhile, the differences between the three are toning down; "Orthodoxy has become less 'orthodox' in the older European sense, so has the Reform movement grown more traditional, especially...
...their best land and using more fertilizer, farmers will harvest an estimated crop of 1,185,000,000 bushels, some 40 million more than last year's bumper harvest. Much the same thing can happen in the corn fields. Corn farmers may plant only 82.7 million acres, their smallest sowing in 50 years. But sunny skies and hybrid seed can easily produce another bumper crop this year...