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Check facts in the following material that seem to need verification or that you would ordinarily check. Some material is accurate, some inaccurate.

  1. TEGUCIGALPA, El Salvador— Nicaraguan families streamed across the border this past week to avoid their sons' conscription in the armed forces, government officials reported today.

  2. Boston University, a Catholic institution, today reported it would increase tuition by 15 percent.

  3. The first civil rights bill for blacks since Reconstruction was approved by Congress in 1957. The bill was designed to protect the rights of black voters.

  4. How-to books and advice on how to make money and how to lead a successful sex life dominate the best-seller lists.

  5. After the record drop in the New York Stock Exchange, police held a suicide watch on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, from which many ruined investors leapt after the market crash of 1929.

  6. Proctor & Gamble Co. is the subject of a new book published by Simon and Schuster.

  7. The study asked 200 students their opinions of the quality of teaching. The result — 55 percent said it was unsatisfactory — was a clear-cut victory for students who are seeking to put an end to the system of tenure.

  8. From an article about Ray Bradbury, the author: Bradbury began writing at an early age and had his first success in the pulp magazines with short stories. His first story was published in 1940.

  9. "No one cares to hear what Hogan calls the short and simple scandals iv the poor," Finley Peter Dunne wrote in his Chicago newspaper column.

  10. In 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the banks closed to prevent their being bankrupted by worried depositors.








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