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...Yale chaplain, called the new program more comprehensive than those at other schools, explaining that "the Michigan and Harvard Programs, however excellent, are inadequate on three counts: 1) they involve very few of the total number of students interested, 2) they are costly and 3) they do not avail themselves of existing possibilities...
...every year, honoring him like the state institution he is. When Vaught makes his annual speech before the alumni in Jackson, says one official, "you'd think the President was coming." Colleges from other states have invited Coach Johnny Reb to become an adopted son, but to no avail. "Home is where the heart is, and that's Oxford," says Coach Johnny Vaught. "I never expect to leave...
...posibility is that if a parking lot is built near the Houses, for instance on the present site of the MTA yard, employees could use it during the week and undergraduates could avail themselves of the facilities on weekends--the time when they need it most," he added...
...struggle for uncommitted countries is going on now, on political, social, and economic grounds," Aiken said and the next President will have task of trying to win the developing nations of the world. Still, "all we can do to befriend foreign countries will be to no avail if we do not maintain sufficient strength in this country to fight off nations wishing to destroy us and our form of government," he contended...
...Fredrick Eaton, chief U.S. delegate, put it. creation of new weapons has always outstripped efforts to disarm ever since the Chinese pirates on the Yangtze held the first dis armament conference in 9 B.C. Now, in the Atomic Age, the haggling has droned on through 14 years to no avail. In the very next room at the Palais, the three-nation nuclear-test-ban conference (U.S., Russia, Britain) had made little progress in more than 16 months of debate...