Word: benefited
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...assaulted the Belgian embassy, smashed windows, and broke bottles of ink against the walls while militiamen stood by and watched. The demonstration was so well organized that whether the students from Africa were French-speaking or English, they showed up with placards (see cut) in English-for the benefit of U.S. TV cameras. Hours later, similar crowds were in action in Belgrade, Amsterdam, Paris...
...nation's biggest and richest railroads staked out their claims to take over the Western. The Southern Pacific started to do so four months ago, after acquiring 10% of Western's stock; it wants to merge the Western system into its own to get the benefit of new business while eliminating duplicating facilities...
There are obvious dangers in so flexible a program. The assumption behind independent studies is that some undergraduates are sufficiently self-disciplined, able, and interested in scholarship to benefit from work outside the formal structure of courses, reading lists, and grades. But it would be hard to deny that not all are so well qualified: there is always the possibility of students using the time for independent studies to relax or to do work in other courses. This poses the Faculty and Administration with a dilemma: how does one prevent abuses without depriving the student of his independence in studying...
...Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May, apostolic descendant of Mrs. Stotesbury, presided at the Red Cross benefit dance, doing her best to be the Great Galvanizer of a diversifying society. Elsa Maxwell was in town, collecting tidbits, people and invitations. Actress Arlene Dahl, new wife of Rancher-Oilman Christian Holmes, admitted that she was having a fine time trying the supposedly impossible: a walk on the tightrope between cafe society and "real" society...
Also significant is the CEP's reaffirmation of its 1958 Honors-for-all proposals in their belief that every student can benefit from the tutorial relationship which nominally is the heart of Harvard education...