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...highway and auto-safety mea sures often make the cure seem worse than the disease. Seat belts save 2,000 to 2,500 lives annually, estimates the National Safety Council; yet motorists have to be cajoled into buckling them in stead of sitting on them. New super-lighways eliminate dangerous curves and intersections while creating new hazards in the form of bridge piers, complicated cloverleafs and, not least, driver boredom. Two new devices offer relatively painless and inexpensive ways to reduce crash damage without placing new burdens on the motorist...
Early in the 1960s, a small number of law schools began to issue the Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree in stead of the standard Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). Soon a few holders of the J.D. discovered that they got job offers ahead of mere LL.B.s solely on the basis of their impressive-sounding degree. The significance was not lost on the American Bar Association, which endorsed the new degree with uncharacteristic haste. J.D.s have proliferated ever since. Without fanfare, more than 109 of the 150 accredited law schools in the U.S. have now switched. Last month Harvard made the change...
...confided to the White House Radio and Television Correspondents' dinner that the President had tried to discourage him from ad-libbing his speech, suggesting that he should recite only his name, rank and serial number in stead. Said Agnew: "Well, I told him I thought I ought to say something more important than that, and he looked at me again. And, you know, for a minute there I thought I had a glimpse of the old Nixon...
...prepare to graduate from Harvard College. I feel the beginnings of a life style kicking inside me, but I don't feel I've done much living I've rejected a lot--institutions and customs I used to take for granted--but I haven't accepted much in their stead. I graduate from Harvard knowing, or thinking I know, mostly what I don't want...
...years ago, Alan S. Boyd refused an offer to head the Association of American Railroads and accepted in stead Lyndon Johnson's appointment as the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Last week Boyd joined the rail roads after all - under a different Johnson. He took the post of president of the Illinois Central Railroad, succeeding William B. Johnson, 50, who will be come chairman while remaining chief executive. "W.B.J.," as he is known around the railroad's Chicago headquarters, will also continue to head the parent Illinois Central Industries. It is a holding company that owns more than...