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...Life is unpredictable," said Saltonstall in his laconic way. "In sailing terms, we sometimes come about and start on a new tack, or as in this case, we jibe over sharply to an entirely different course. With the greatest reluctance, I plan to resign as principal of Exeter at the end of the school year...
...soundest way to a balanced budget; that way is to reduce spending. Too bad the President didn't end his speech about a third of the way through-when he was way ahead with his attractive tax-cut proposals. Instead, he apparently thought it was necessary to tack on a motley assortment of recommendations adding up to a 'domestic program...
...late teens, Dancer worked as a groom, mucking out stalls at New York's Roosevelt Raceway, and got himself a cot in the racetrack's tack room to cut expenses. Married at 20, he borrowed $250 from his bride to buy a crippled seven-year-old trotter named Candor that he patiently nursed back to health and trained on snow-covered bridle paths in New Jersey. Candor repaid him by winning $12,000 in three years, and Dancer built a five-room ranch house at New Egypt...
...will rise in clusters of two or three at various distances from the core Liberal arts will dominate the university especially art, music, writing and foreign languages (sparked by the nearby Army Language School). But starting with Cowel College in 1965, each school will also take its own academic tack-social science for Cowell, natural science, economics and public affairs for the others that will be built over three decades. Stressing seminars and tutorials, the colleges will have heir own faculty "fellows" but also share them with other colleges in a setup that big university departments. Also frowned on: fraternities...
Berlin & Broilers. The Common Market is making every effort to shoo away the U.S. chickens. A new rule effective last July fixes minimum prices on poultry entering the market, and each of the six member nations is also permitted to tack on a tax pegged to domestic poultry production costs. The minimum price set for U.S. broilers is 33.3? a lb., and the West German supplemental tax adds another 9.7?. To make matters worse, the Common Market this month imposed an arbitrary surcharge of 2.8? on broilers. All this boosts delivery prices of U.S. chickens by as much...