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...household equipment, and "Piggy Bank," budget-centered instruction in personal finance. At Cornell, publicity in the Daily Sun ruined a freshman geology course known as "Rocks for Jocks," which is now unusually tough; but Mathematician Leonard Silver, who marks exams in a linear algebra course vaguely as either "swell" or "lousy," still gives nothing but A's. "I'm trying to help the student avoid ulcers," he explains...
...hospital while Denver's district attorney, James D. McKevitt, awaited the outcome of chemical tests for drugs on samples of her blood. "This is just a tragic example of what is going on in that area," said McKevitt, who has watched Denver's hippie population swell from almost nothing to an estimated 3,500 inside a few months after the Colorado legislature refused to make possession of hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD and speed a criminal offense...
...absence of scheduled panelist Michael Wallace, a television news-caster, Cassell devoted most of his remarks to castigating television. "The TV films, by revealing the scene of riots while they were happening, helped swell the crowds," he charged...
...tactics of Boer General Cronje, Baden-Powell was made the youngest major general in the British army. His military prowess was acclaimed in terms that would have been extravagant for Alexander of Macedon. He retired in 1910 after an otherwise uneventful military career. But no matter, he made a swell founder of the Boy Scouts...
...look in advertising, signing on the currently hot Wells, Rich, Greene agency (other accounts: Benson & Hedges 100s and Braniff airlines), which plans to tackle the Mustang headon, with the pitch that the new car has features-contour bumpers, hand-welded roof, more leg room-that make it a swell value. A.M.C.'s brass expects the total specialty market to reach 1,000,000 car sales next year, counts on the Javelin to capture a 5% slice, or 50,000 cars. Added to American's present 250,-000-a-year sales level, it would bring the company to what...