Cost gap in colleges editorial calls for cuts now
The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education led by Dr. Clark Kerr urges a 20 percent cut in higher education costs to avert a $51 billion figure by 1980. Proposals include shortening undergrad time to three years, trimming salaries, suspending new Ph.D. programs, and raising workloads to curb public funding, as universities face looming cost pressures.
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Carnegie Commission On Higher Education
Clark Kerr
University of California
Taft Hartley at 25 A Labor Law’s Mixed Record
The Taft Hartley Act of 1947 aimed to curb labor power and protect the public from strikes. It ended the closed shop in many areas and limited compulsory union membership in right to work states. Union membership grew from 3.5 million in 1935 to 18.9 million by 1968, while the law’s impact varied across industries. Despite limits, strong unions persisted and calls for compulsory arbitration rose amid push for labor peace amid foreign competition.
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Taft-Hartley
Italy
Fiat
Moscow
Mediterranean
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Taxpayer relief debate mirrors a widening political divide
Amid rising federal revenues and tax cuts in the 1960s and early 1970s, taxpayers face a $45 billion total cut impact, a $26 billion net loss, and rising deficits. Brookings studies show civilian spending to GDP nearly doubling, fueling calls for government role shifts and contrasting campaigns by McGovern and Wallace.
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Brookings Institution
Fiat Strikes and North South Rift in Turin’s Turmoil
In Turin, Fiat employs 185,000 workers and dominates Italy’s car output and export earnings while productivity dips and wage costs rise. The north south divide intensifies as strikes cut 19 percent of output and total man-hours lost soar, fueling unrest and a broader Soviet influence narrative in a fragile Italian economy.
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Fiat
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Britain
Leland Motor Corporation
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Fiat Company
Giovanni Agnelli
Lenin
Fayette County set aside acres released for haying and grazing
Herb Ash announces Fayette County approval to release set aside acres for seasonal haying or grazing due to winter kill. Written requests to the County office. price set at $9.00 per acre. Farmers may release acres to neighbors if their price does not exceed $6.00 per acre. Final date to seal '71 corn is June 30.
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Fayette
Herb Ash
Fayette County
As.c.s
Petit jurors named for Buchanan County
The Buchanan county clerk of courts announces the third quarter petit jury for district court covering July through September. jurors listed include Ruth Handley Helen Tucker Eleanor Yeoman Hila Sturtz Everett Stainbrook and many others from Jesup Lamont Masonville Quasqueton Rowley Stanley Walker Independence and surrounding towns.
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Buchanan County
Stanley
Orva Wright
Anna Mae Michael
Walker
Bertrand L. Gaffney
Lewis A. Murley
Norris F. Nielsen
Reta E. Partridge
Patricia A. Peck
Albert C. Steffen
Mary Ann Adams
Sandra Marie Ballou
Shirley J. Bishop
Geraldine Bushell
Harold A. Carson
Marian A. Conklin
Lyman S. Crowell
June V. Wall
Jean E. Hehr
Gail M. King
John N. Lundy
Harald J. Nabholz
Archie ¥. Polk
Harald J. Satterlee
Sara K. Sheets
Helen M. Stark
Doris B. Walton
Robert R. Willems
Decorah Farm Bureau Resolutions Dinner Meeting
Region 19 resolutions committees will meet July 10 at 7 30 p m at the Cliff House Decorah for discussion on suggested issues for the 1972 opinionnaire Background information and steps in procedure will be distributed Leo Bodensteiner Fayette County Farm Bureau resolutions committee chairman urges full committee attendance
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Decorah
Farm Bureau Region 19 Resolutions Committees
Cliff House
Fayette
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