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...even Mediobanca professes to know how to dispose of the presidential surplus. They can scarcely be sent into private industry; there are already 41,336 corporate presidents holding sway there. They certainly cannot join the armed forces. Italy presently has 541 generals to command an army of 267,570 men. (The U.S., by contrast, has 508 generals for an army more than three times as large.) As for the Italian navy, it has 1.23 admirals for every vessel in the fleet...
...idyllically absorbed in contemplating a mental picture of the Taj Mahal. Similarly, Heim reported: "Death through falling is subjectively very pleasant. Those who have died in the mountains have, in their last moments, reviewed their individual pasts in states of transfiguration. Elevated above corporeal grief, they were under the sway of noble and profound thoughts, heavenly music, and a feeling of peace and reconciliation. They fell through a blue and roseate, magnificent heaven; then everything was suddenly still...
...long fight to organize 75% of the country's public elementary and secondary-school teachers-were making rapid inroads into higher education. Now the three groups compete fiercely, sometimes on the same campus. At Temple, for example, they spent an estimated total of more than $100,000 to sway faculty votes. The N.E.A. alone sent about 25 professional organizers to the campus, where they buttonholed professors, arranged meetings and stuffed faculty mailboxes with position papers...
George McGovern's efforts to sway the Jewish vote in the 1972 election were attacked Wednesday by Dr. Gerald Caplan, professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School...
Linsky, who is Jewish, could sway many of the Drinan supporters in these two towns where he did very well in Tuesday's primary. In a poll taken by the Linsky staff last April. Drinan only held a ten point lead. In Brookline and Newton, the polls showed that both candidates had a third of the vote with the remainder undecided...