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Trouble Ahead. Bound in hard covers, the potato serials formed a vast sub-literature whose authors typed fast, grew rich, and pretended to be wistful about critical neglect. Among the fastest and richest was Faith Baldwin, whose income reached six figures a year during the '30s and '40s, and who has written, under her own name and pseudonyms, at least 100 books Edmund Wilson has never heard of. Editors loved her because she was dependable and fast. Once, with no perceptible quickening in pace, she clicked off a 12,000-word novella during a four-day coast...
...higher education has never vital than it is now. subject is today more the continued survival of , Luckily, amid the has smothered the sub- decades have produced but weighty corpus of first-- about it. The Profane now joins that select...
...ALUMINUM. Until recently, seven Government agencies had veto power over any plans to dispose of surplus items-and they frequently used that power. Between 1958 and 1961, the General Services Administration, which oversees the stockpile, made three requests to sell small lots of sub-specification aluminum. Though the aluminum industry was selling millions of dollars worth of the metal to the Government every year, and thereby adding to the surplus, it complained that it would be "unfair for the Government to put this aluminum on the market." Heeding the objections, the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization prevented the sale...
...Open, Oakmonth's string-bean fairways had been tightened to only 30 yds. in width on some holes, and the enormous greens had been shaved until only one-eighth inch of grass remained. Par had been lowered from 72 to 71, so tough that only 19 sub-par rounds were shot during the entire tournament. The lead skipped around as though the golfers were playing hot potato: Gene Littler, the first-day leader with a sparkling 69, sank rapidly to a tie for seventh, and five players held the lead at one point or another on the final...
...succeeded quite well since then. Several thousand students have now received a sub-lethal dose of a few great books and some impressive ideas. They not only exchange them at cocktail parties, but sit up for hours in Holworthy or arguing about them. Those early-morning hours are when Gen Ed succeeds most...