Word: acted
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Stephen J. Brademas, Jr. '50, of Adams House and South Bend, Indiana, has been selected by the United Nations to act as an intern at Lake Success this summer. Brademas was one of three students nominated by the University...
...delegates had more to worry about than recent defeats in county elections (TIME, April 18). The sharp spring drop in Britain's exports threatened rising unemployment. Many economists would welcome this, on the argument that a "normal" pool of unemployed would act as a brake on trade-union demands which have been pushing up production costs and pricing British goods out of export markets. Laborite politicos, however, believed that in the present mood of Britons a "normal" unemployment of 1,000,000 would kill the Labor Party's hopes of winning next year's general elections...
...Margaret will have plenty of time to entertain girl friends at gossip fests in her rooms at the palace. Of an evening, she may go with a few carefully chosen girls and young men to the theater and a nightclub. The one thing she must not do is act like a commoner...
...Crowd Romance. Last week in San Francisco, the Northerners voted to consider the question of changing the denomination's name to the less regional-sounding "American Baptist Convention." To counter any Southern suspicion that this was a new act of aggression, the Northerners also voted to invite their big Southern sister to unite with them in establishing the "American Baptist Convention." But there was scant hope that the Dixie Baptists would accept this extended hand...
...Marvin Bower '30, chairman of the committee. the alumni heard L. R. Boulware, vice-president of the General Electric Co., suggest city-wide courses in economics for adults. Bowlware also attacked proposed changes in the Taft-Hartley law and declared that the pressure on Congressmen to change the act was not truly representative of the will of the people...