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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...additional $350,000-a credit of $125,000 for future purchases of anhydrous ammonia, plus $225,000 to enable Estes to get started in the grain-storage business. Estes, now into Commercial Solvents for $900,000, promised to pay off the debt in installments over a five-year span. As part of the overall deal, Estes agreed to assign to Commercial Solvents 100% of the fees he got for storing grain...
Harvard has in fact been talking undergraduates out of acceleration, persuading them to stay a full four years (a tough job at $3,000 yearly costs), while taking graduate courses if they wish to. Columbia permits almost a year of graduate study credit within the four-year span. At the same time, Columbia is revamping its pioneering (1919) two-year general education program, Contemporary Civilization. The required sophomore part used to consist of smatterings from the works of 50 or so great thinkers; now it offers solid courses from anthropology to economics, a shrewd compromise between specialization and generalization...
Showing no signs of letting up, Coach Munro's stickmen scored six times the first fifteen-minute span...
...most certainly is. In Texas the U.S. has a state which produces four times as much cotton lint as any place else around (4,308,000 bales in 1958); the Ohio River is spanned by the largest Simple Truss Bridge anywhere--the Metropolis Bridge has a main span of some 720 feet! Or take a camera to Oklahoma on September 16, for the colorful Indian ceremony known jocularly as "Cherokee Strip...
...glamour of the presidency, makes news week after week. So does the Legislative Branch, whether it is going along with the President or opposing him. Last week was one of those relatively rare times when the third branch of the Government, the Judiciary, dominated the news. Within a span of a few days, 1) the Supreme Court handed down a precedent-breaking decision that might have as many repercussions as its 1954 school desegregation ruling. 2) an Eisenhower-appointed Justice retired, and 3 ) President Kennedy nominated his first Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...