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Until recently, such endorsements were almost unheard of. Most educators held proprietary schools in low esteem because of all too frequent abuses-ads promised high salaries but training was often inadequate. Three years ago, Senator Walter Mondale called such unprincipled schools "the last legalized con game in America." Even today, 18 states have no laws regulating the schools. The proprietary-school industry itself has set up voluntary accrediting boards, but many schools have ignored them because they can fill their classes without accreditation...
Harvard Faculty members are not being drawn away. But the Harvard magnetism has lost its attractive force for many academics at other universities. Fifty years ago, perhaps, middle-aged professors sat around and waited for the call to Harvard. These days, the call often goes unheard. The 1968 Dunlop Report noted that in the previous decade, about half of Harvard's offers to professors at other universities were refused. The report concluded that "once a man is settled and reasonably successful, it is hard to move him either to or away from Harvard...
...stem from loneliness, miserable living conditions and the worries of trying to get by on an insufficient income. Other statistics are equally grim. Of the deaths caused by fire in Japan, 40% involve the elderly. About 660,000 older people now live alone-a circumstance that was unheard of before World...
...committee that quietly administered the Gibran estate. When the Gibran boom started in the '50s, however, committee membership suddenly became a source of political power. Any goatherd who sought assistance from the estate became politically indebted to the member who sponsored him. And financial kickbacks were not unheard of either. Soon families split apart in the clamor to win a committee position. Age-old feuds gained new fury, and at least two deaths resulted. Ultimately the two largest families-each with about 1,500 members-set up rival committees...
...rice, noodles and breadstuffs-are obtained by the peasant as his share of the production of his commune, which is run by a revolutionary committee. Medical care is free, thanks to the "barefoot doctors" -medical technicians who are assigned to all communes. Television on the commune is, of course, unheard-of. Many families have radios, though, and from time to time entertainment is provided by touring companies of actors and musicians...