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...question of a tour comes up each year, yet the orchestra has not recently gone far afield because of the expense and time involved. Before October, 1948, the tours had occurred while school was in session, but at this time there was a revision of tour policy. "Henceforth, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will give no joint orchestral concerts while school is in session. . . Mt. Holyoke, Colby Jr. and Wellesley College take notice...
...Calif, fusion laboratory, Teller turns his mind to development of tactical-size, low-fallout thermonuclear weapons. In addition, he serves on the AEC's General Advisory Committee and the Air Force's Scientific Advisory Board, carries on his own strenuous public education campaign in media as far afield from pure science as the This Week Sunday supplement. Main topics: the survival value of underground bomb shelters, the need for continued nuclear-weapons tests, and, above all, the urgency of keeping ahead of Russia in science...
...Nixon has urged 1) that President Eisenhower move sharply to re-emphasize his national leadership, and 2) that the Administration go farther toward explaining the true state of the nation's security to the people, by relaxing the secrecy curbs on reports of missile progress. From his travels afield Nixon, along with Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, reported that the President still had a vast fund of popularity and respect-but that he was not making the most of it. Most of all, Nixon sensed that the rest of the U.S. was ready to join Washington in going...
...graphic art pieces were flown across the equator in five well-packed planeloads. Said McEwen: "It is unlikely that such a show will ever be seen again in Africa because of the difficulties and the reluctance of overseas galleries to allow valuable works of art to travel so far afield...
...Said Senior Vice President James Neville Land, 62, in the bank's weekly newsletter: "Our rising population is creating pressures on natural resources which tend to retard further increases in material wellbeing. We must dig deeper oil wells and exploit less productive veins of coal and go farther afield for water supplies, all of which is a drag on prosperity...