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Students entered in the Navy's contract ROTC program now may postpone their active naval duty in order to seek a Master's degree in a scientific or mathematical field. The new plan, announced yesterday by Captain Richard T. Spofford, professor of Naval Science, will first affect the Class...
Students may work more than one year for their M.A. or M.S., but they will not be allowed to seek a Ph.D. at the time. This period of graduate study will not affect the length of active service required, but will be considered in determining the officer's future duty assignments...
...board's new policy holds up, it may affect as many as 9,500 students-the i% of the school population estimated to be the hard-core punks. It raised a howl among some teacher and civic groups as "an act of desperation" and "an abject surrender to pressure," and there was talk that the policy might be challenged in the courts. Since the city is desperately short of means to keep rein on delinquents awaiting trial, some officials joined the critics in wondering whether the board was not merely turning them "right out into the streets...
...Weathermen are getting the first really worldwide picture of the atmosphere's circulation. U.S. Weather Bureau scientists drifting on the Arctic ice keep track of winds and pressure changes that will affect the weather of Keokuk and Odessa. Their colleagues at the South Pole do the same for the Antarctic. Already their reports have improved weather forecasting for the Southern Hemisphere...
Trade & Tariffs. U.S. purchases from Latin America poured $4 billion into the area last year†-a sum half again as much as U.S. economic assistance funds for the whole world. But simply because the trade is so large and so vital, minor changes in U.S. tariffs can affect it drastically. The worst-hurt nation currently is Uruguay. Since 1951 U.S. imports from Uruguay have fallen from $102 million a year to about $18 million, mostly because Western sheep raisers in the U.S. got a prohibitive tariff put on Uruguayan wool. Now the Russians, smoothly operating through Dutch importers, have...