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...CONGO, Brazzaville (F.) Pop.: 900,000. Size: 132,046 sq. mi. Literacy: 15%. School attendance: 85%. College graduates: less than 20. One of ex-French Africa's highest literacy rates. Despite efforts to stamp out savage ways, there is occasional cannibalism...
...grey firth, shot a horrendous 85, and caught the next boat home. Even in the sunniest of weather, the championship 7,045-yd. course is a clutching jungle of harsh gorse, spiny Scotch broom and impenetrable whin bushes. Ditchlike burns and sheerfaced bunkers dot the threadbare fairways; the postage-stamp greens are stubbly and unpredictable. Commuter trains clatter past while golfers sweat over tricky putts, and yowling jet airliners swoop low to land at Prestwick, only two miles away...
...With the stamp plan now in operation in half its 4,409 stores, A. & P. is currently ringing up its biggest sales ever; in the three months ending May 26, said Burger, the chain's gross climbed 4½% above any other quarter in its history. But Burger still had some lingering reservations about stamps. So far, he reported, the surge in sales has not produced any increase in profits-though A. & P. expects profits to "catch up" once the heavy costs of installing the stamp plan are past. And when a stockholder asked whether recent price increases...
...Augustine. In one debate with some 5th century heretics, he lost his temper, abandoned his arguments from Scripture and announced the terrible principle: Cogite intrare-compel them to enter. It was a fateful surrender to weakness that later Christians found most useful. In the 13th century battle to stamp out the Catharists of southern France, the church could call on Augustine to justify the killing of heretics...
...week of orientation, the wide-eyed young freshman found herself left in peace, and usually in isolation, to make what she would of her college experience. If she was neither a psychotic nor a genius, the chances were that her adviser would turn out to be a kindly rubber-stamp device with virtually no interest in whether she majored in English or physics. Nor did anyone seem to care care whether she rounded off her four years by marrying an eligible Ivy Leaguer or by scuttling off to graduate school in quest of a Ph.D. No one, except her roommate...