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...education goes to research. In many American schools, says a former HEW education official, the prevailing attitudes are "inflexibility, defensiveness and insularity," making them "fortresses against the community" rather than fertile forces within it. Adding to the indictment, Gardner charges that "the schools have been all too willing to unload their behavior and scholastic problems on the community in the form of dropouts or expelled students...
...Liveright, still strapped, was ready to unload his Modern Library, a shelf of 950 reprint classics whose only liability was a distinct and unpleasant odor emanating from the binding glue. Cerf rounded up Donald Klopfer, put the arm on his Wall Street uncle, and snapped up the Modern Library, smell and all, for $200,000. Within three years, Klopfer and Cerf, having retired their debts, decided to branch out by publishing a few new books at random. Thus was Random House born...
Many of the tutors reportedly feel that unqualified students are being permitted to write theses. "Some of them [the tutors] had hoped to unload a large proportion of the thesis writers," Fleming said...
...does the agency perform this balance-wheel job that private mortgage men consider it indispensable. Precisely because of Fannie Mae's high standing in the financial community, Congress often gives it unsought extra duties handling programs of dubious soundness. This year Fannie Mae has become the conduit to unload assorted government-owned financial assets on private borrowers to further President Johnson's goal of holding down the apparent level of federal spending...
Deal or Die. When Feddersen's Mobile Construction Battalion 10 arrived at Chu Lai a year ago last May, Saigon's harbor was clogged with ships unable to unload their cargoes, and airstrips elsewhere were glutted with traffic. Morale at Chu Lai itself was desperately low due to an overabundance of sand flies and a dearth of comfort. It was a perfect situation for cumshaw, and fortunately Bernie Feddersen was on hand...