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...Nuclear Engineering is a new field and the Division of Applied Science tries to keep abreast of the times," Dean John H. Van Vieck of the Division said yesterday. "There is undoubtedly going to be a tremendous amount of nuclear power generated within the next two decades and we are not sure just how much, but we want to provide training for the many we want to provide training for the many men who will be needed," he continued...
...Crimson's Alan Rapperport nearly upset the visitors' Neil Sween in the 200-yard backstroke. Almost abreast of the touted Green sophomore for the first hundred yards, Rapperport pulled even in the next fifty and was barely ahead in the last leg when Sween, as if shifting into overdrive, touched out first in his best time of the year...
More U.S. economic aid is important even for its own sake. The basic problems of food, education, and health would exist whether or not there were a threat from China, for the people in underdeveloped nations are determined to come abreast of the twentieth century. Anti-Communism is not sufficient; a positive, sincere approach to economic and human problems is needed in the form of such specific programs as India's village development plan...
...Many Mice. Congress also directed SBA to help small firms get a bigger share of Government contracts. The meas ure of its success is that, despite the decline of defense spending, contracts to small firms have been going up. To keep the small businessman abreast of good management techniques. SBA has also put out 53 booklets on topics ranging from "How to Build Your Sales Volume" to "Care of Hydraulic Systems."* Staff specialists help with individual problems, e.g., a paraplegic veteran looking for markets to unload his overproduction of white mice, a soda-fountain supplier looking for new confections...
...through a symphony program; fewer still would think of standing through one. But for Londoners, standing is natural when midsummer rolls around and the Promenade Concerts in the Royal Albert Hall get going. A good many of the queue-hardy, in fact, stand all day, sometimes four abreast, in lines stretching around the hall and down the street. When the doors open at 6:45 p.m., they plop down their 2s. 6d., break for the arena floor, and go right on standing. Those with the best positions (i.e., as close to the conductor as possible) do not budge...