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Overtly Menacing. In the year-long Chieu Hoi program, other messages are more overtly menacing, including the display of the body or rotted skull of a dead soldier and the lists of dead North Vietnamese. Facsimiles of North Vietnamese piasters are regularly dropped with the warning that "as the war goes on, there will be less and less to buy. Prices will go higher and higher. You may lose all of your wealth, fruit of your sweat and tears." Propaganda teams deliver personal letters by the thousands to homes of suspected Viet Cong, some frankly designed to so compromise...
...rental fee 3% to expand revenues. > Xerox also bounded to its 15th successive earnings record, with profits up 36%, to $80 million. Thanks to what Chairman Joseph C. Wilson called an "important reversal" in orders for its once slow-moving 2400 copier, earnings outraced increasing costs. Though the year-long gain was nothing like 1965's 47% leap, Wilson seemed almost embarrassed. Some time in the future, he warned, "our percentage rate of growth must, of course, diminish." - Kennecott Copper, one of the three biggest U.S. copper producers, turned a first-half slump resulting from strikes in Chile into...
This impressive ideal was implemented in a program of year-long integrated courses, which could be passed by a comprehensive examination or passed out of in initial placement tests. Members of the College faculty devoted themselves to the preparation of the syllabi for these unique courses. Hutchins planned for an emphasis on method rather than content so that the student would develop, with the professor, a technique of critical analysis rather than a list of memorized facts. A Humanities course would not attempt to familiarize students with a wide historical range of "the greats" of literature or art. Instead...
Ethics & Alienation. At Dobbs Ferry High School, 20 miles up the Hudson from Manhattan, ninth-graders spend each morning in a year-long humanities sequence that starts with the contemporary world, then shifts back to primitive man, progresses through classical cultures, medieval times, the Renaissance, and returns to today. One recent morning began with a student-prepared exposition of Greek architecture, shown over closed-circuit television in five classrooms. After that, a social-studies class compared the quality of democracy in ancient Greece and in modern-day Mississippi; an art class took up classical sculpture; a philosophy class studied...
...country where politics is played like karate (a sport at which Constantine excels). Jordan's Hussein is doing his best to stave off antimonarchist rioters instigated by his leftist neighbors, Syria and the United Arab Republic. Only last week the new African nation Burundi ended the 400-year-long tribal rule of King Ntare...