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...College, Tutorial was the battleground of the hour. A barrage of guarded accusations by the Undergraduate Committee on General Education hit the Administration for forcing curtailment of tutorial by financial pressure on departments--a conclusion which the group came to after extensive polling of faculty members. Crimson editorials examined the issue, warned against over-zealous "pruning by enthusiastic tutorial gardeners...
Five days later the significance of his speech became clear. From Washington came word of a joint arctic defense plan for the U.S. and Canada. It was based on the military premise that Canada's vast northland might become a battleground in another war. Operation Musk-Ox (TIME, May 20) had proved that the north was no longer impassable or impregnable. It had also proved that Canada had not yet developed the proper equipment for warfare there...
This was the main battleground of U.S. food production-enormous plains stretching without a relieving ripple beyond vision; rolling prairies, like the heaving surface of the ocean congealed to earth; vast uplands lifting slowly with no barrier but a barbed-wire fence to the terminal barrier of the Rocky Mountains. In good years, this vast food factory poured out some 800 million bu. of wheat, some 2,800 million bu. of corn, 1,200 million bu. of oats, 63 million hogs, 33 million beef cattle, 36 million sheep, 82 million lbs. of milk, 3,200 million lbs. of butterfat...
Undergraduate opinion has won its first post-war victory--on the gutted battleground of tutorial. With his announcement yesterday that the newly-formed Social Relations Department of which he is chairman would offer modified tutorial instruction next year, Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology revealed the overturning of a previous decision of the department against tutorial and in effect reversed year-old signals that had assumed the proportions of a trend...
...American Airway Corp.'s protest to C.A.B. on transatlantic competition (see above) was not matched by its rough-&-tumble row with a competitor in Mexico. The competitor: Aerovias Braniff, S.A., affiliate of the U.S.'s Braniff Airways Inc. (TIME, April 16). The battleground: the route from Mexico City to Merida via Vera Cruz, where Braniff made its first flight on July...