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...point, the formula has succeeded. In the past decade, for exam-)le, the ranks of college students have more than doubled, and the number of Americans officially classified as "poor" nas declined substantially. But the elit ter of growth has begun to tarnish...
...enjoys chatting with the players, which has led a few wags to the conclusion that the White House has bet ter relations with Senators on the field than with Senators on the Hill. Bob Short, owner of the Senators, marvels that Nixon "knows more about baseball than I do. I was amazed to hear him say he'd been following the Senators on his trip to Midway." Nixon and David Eisenhower attend games together and frequently talk baseball. One re cent evening, the duo sped out to the stadium, Nixon rushing away from a press conference, David forsaking...
...students to start planning their own courses. In The Academic Revolution, Christopher Jencks and David Riesman argue that community colleges should take over the first two years of college for virtually all high school graduates. "Senior colleges" might then de-emphasize the B.A. and enroll most students in mas-ter's-degree programs. This would ease college-teacher recruitment, and postpone the college-admission trauma two years, allowing students to choose when they are older and better equipped to do so. Another approach, being tried at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Mass., is for an "early college," a four...
...limited ar eas. Consequently, Dwight Eisen hower barred production of the Zeus, but directed the Pentagon to pursue efforts to develop a bet ter system...
Part of BAD's campaign to get bet- ter deals for students is its priority ticket service, insuring that students get the best seats available at the price they pay. Generally this is pretty straightforward -- BAD buys up a block of seats and distributes them to students as the orders come in--but when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead came from New York to the Schubert, BAD, negotiated a special deal with David Merrick's office. Along with running sales through the priority ticket service, Merrick had agreed to a discount price for students--the first time any legitimate theatre...