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...Henry Ford II last week urged complete repeal of the federal excise tax on autos "as the kind of action that will help reverse the present unfortunate trend." Added Ford: "We have reached a crucial point in the recession-a point where optimistic words are of little avail and where prompt and direct action is indicated...
...report for the New England Journal of Medicine Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas list the treatments they have tried: aspirin, sulfas, three antibiotics, cortisone, hydrocortisone, testosterone, phenobarbital, antihistamines, anti-epilepsy drugs, vitamin B, folic acid, liver extract and even a war-gas antidote, British Anti-Lewisite-all to no avail...
Frye said last night that three Russian professors had expressed their desire to come to the University, as did several students if they could secure fellowships. Frye suggested that the U.S. could test Zarubin's sincerity by actually making a number of fellowships avail- able...
...tutors are young instructors or graduate students and ... students are often assigned to a tutor with a different field of interest than their own." About the first point, members of the Committee have long ago expressed themselves as willing to tutor highly qualified seniors and every year several students avail themselves of this privilege. A check with other large departments suggests that the number of students working with permanent members of the faculty is about the same--and equally low--everywhere. Of our 196 concentrators last year, eight had tutorial with senior professors or members of the Committee. In History...
...function of art, in imposing a credible order upon ordinary reality, and thereby eliciting some perception of an order in reality, to bring us to a condition of serenity, stillness, and reconciliation; and then leave us, as Virgil left Dante, to proceed toward a region where that guide can avail us no farther." Insofar as Eliot has always derived his theories from his practice, this is his ex post facto description of the Four Quartets, a poetic bridge between the realms of the material and the spiritual...