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...comic strips, flooded rural districts with sample copies, cut subscription prices to 25? a week, and countered losses by putting out free copies of a shopping guide offered to advertisers at rock-bottom combination rates. Hoiles also strengthened his editorial staff, concentrated on local news, added a Sunday TV supplement. By 1960 the News pulled ahead in circulation and began to get advertisers back. The News still lost as much as $600,000 a year. The Citizen lost less, but could afford it less...
...traineeships will supplement the current NSF Graduate Fellowship Program. There will, however, be no national competition for this program, as there is for NSF Fellowships. Awards and renewals will be handled directly by Harvard...
Harold C. Haizlip, 28, son of a porter in Washington, D.C., went to work at the age of twelve to supplement a family income of $2,800. Amherst gave him a scholarship and he graduated cum laude ('57) with an honors thesis written in ancient Greek on "The Greek Concept of Eros." He got a Woodrow Wilson fellowship, earned his master's degree in teaching at Harvard in 1959. Married to a Wellesley girl, he is now working for a Ford Foundation project to help modernize Boston schools...
...Overboard. Now that his newest brainchild has proved such a prodigy, Sonar Engineer Edwin Turner, 64, plans to deliver two prototypes to the Navy for further trials and then retire. He stresses that Doppler sonar is a supplement, not a replacement for radar and other modern navigational aids. It can function properly only in well-charted waters or far at sea, where the course picked out by its pen is not likely to run into unexpected obstacles. The Navy already has a built-in need for such a device on many of its ships, and along the world...
Another sugestion made by Pusey was that the government award five or ten-year grants for research projects, instead of some of the present short-term grants, and that it expand the program of "institutional" grants covering general areas, as a supplement to aid for specific projects...