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...such countries as East Germany and Hungary, Communist regimes are maintained only by the presence of Russian soldiers or the vigilance of local troops and state police. Many new or underdeveloped nations feel that, whatever lures it may possess, Communism comes with too high a price tag of coercion and terror...
Grizzly!, the first special in the National Geographic Society series, focused mostly on 51-year-old twin brothers, Frank and John Craighead, a pair of wildlife biologists who track, drug, tag, and record the habits of grizzlies in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Best shot: a bear wakes with a roar from his drug-induced slumber and charges head-on into the side of the Craigheads' car. The Craigheads, though, are the real stars; urban viewers can only admire the intelligence and understanding with which they impart to their children a respect and fascination for natural life...
High Prices. The price tag on academic chairs is high. The minimum at most prestige schools is $500,000, which, at a 5% return a year, provides up to $25,000 for the professor's salary. Yet the pursuit of such money is well worth a school's time and energy, since endowments free operating funds. Stanford Provost Richard Lyman considers endowed chairs, next to outright unrestricted gifts, "the best possible long-term financial base for a university...
...ball bounced in front of Maris, who gunned it home. Scott said under the high throw which the catcher dropped. Then suddenly a second later and 20 feet behind scott. Smith came flying in just missing the tag...
Geneen himself shuns the conglomerate tag, prefers to call ITT "a unified-management, multiproduct company"-a term that, for some reason, he considers far tidier. Whatever the label, Geneen's ITT has become a hearty concoction. A huge amalgam of some 150 affiliated companies in 57 countries, it hums with new purpose in its traditional field: the manufacture of communications equipment around the world. At the same time, ITT's 204,000 employees are pushing into fresh territory. Backed by an annual research-and-development budget of $220 million, ITT scientists are at work on such sophisticated projects...