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Arrangements were announced by Asa S. Bushnell, director of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic conference. Bushnell has not yet named the network, although he said the telecasts will being at 2 p.m. on Saturdays...
According to a contemporary account, "Then arose Asa the scribe, and went unto Belcher, the ruler, and said behold our Butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof; now give us, we pray thee, Butter that stinketh not..." However phrased in fact, this request was turned down. A strike followed and the undergraduate body deserted Hollis Hall, the commons, almost entirely...
EAST-WEST TRADE will increase only slightly asa result of the U.S. decision, to ease controls on exports to Russia and satellites next year. Exporters will no longer need individual licenses for each shipment, but will still be limited to nonstrategic goods, e.g., tallow, hides and tobacco. U.S. exports to Russia will remain a trickle ($6,000,000 a year v. $45 million in. Soviet imports) unless the Iron Curtain; countries decide to buy American farm food surpluses or step up purchases of farm and textile machinery...
...grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine Man Asa T. Soule of Rochester put over by promoting a baseball team and a hilariously crooked sculling championship, invites comparison with Thurber's immortal tribute to the life-preserving elixirs concocted by Aunt Margery Albright. This book is good fun for summer readers, especially for those who remember...
...Army and Navy officers. J. F. Wellemeyer Jr. of the American Council of Learned Societies thinks that universities might consider revamping some teacher-training programs, and instead of insisting on the Ph.D. degree, might extend and deepen their programs leading to the M.A. At the University of Toledo, President Asa Knowles has scoured the community and local industry for teachers, now has 75 business and professional men serving part time on his faculty. Other presidents have come to the conclusion that colleges may have to make use of bigger and bigger lecture courses and more and more...