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...grim silence for 90 minutes while Ferger, 61, denied charges by Ratliff and Cronin that his own salary and bonus (1955 total: $104,699) and those of Assistant Publisher Eugene Duffield ($62,319) were excessive. Moreover, said Ferger, financial backers had urged him to insist on a ten-year contract; while he wanted the right to approve three of the five voting trustees in order to ensure "continuity of management" and "practical control." Ferger also said that Halsey, Stuart & Co., the Chicago investment firm that took $6,000,000 in Enquirer bonds and debentures, had suggested that he get options...
...publicity-and at a bad time: NBC's share of the TV business and ratings were dropping. In November, for the first time in TV history, NBC failed to place a single TV show in the top ten Trendex ratings (TIME, Nov. 28), Last week David Sarnoff announced that Weaver would move up to board chairman, with a new ten-year contract and a salary raise, to "free him for the creative and imaginative end of the business" while "Bob will be carrying on the day-to-day operations, and planning ahead." "Bob" is Sarnoff's son, Robert...
...Difference. Though the Russians boast loudly of providing education for all. their school system is not as democratic as it sounds. The regular ten-year elementary and secondary program is merciless: in 1954. less than 126 out of every 1,000 pupils who had started it managed to survive for graduation. But the big difference between U.S. and Soviet education is a matter of emphasis. Foreign languages and geography get far more attention in the U.S.S.R., and 41% of the entire upper-grade curriculum is devoted to mathematics and science. This, says Expert DeWitt, is a "distinctive feature of Soviet...
Consumer Relations. In Houston, sentenced to a ten-year jail term for robbing the same laundry four times, Burglar Robert L. Manley said in court: "I had a grudge against that laundry, judge. I went there one day just past closing time, and the man wouldn't give me my clothes...
...University does fail to meet a "five-year plan" or "ten-year plan" for expansion, it need not wholly detach itself from the issue. Harvard could still actively contribute to the solution of the national problem merely by advising the nation's educators in their planning efforts and by training teachers. Whether or not Harvard must ultimately choose such a role, the Administration in the meantime should stop the aimless drift toward expansion. It must face the dilemma squarely and calculate the price it may be forced...