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Congressman Herter's most important achievement was helping to sell the U.S., especially skeptical Midwestern Republicans, on the Marshall Plan idea. In 1947 Herter proposed creation of a special Select Committee on Foreign Aid, became its chairman, shrewdly arranged that its 17 members should include a sprinkling of deep-dyed isolationists. Leading his committee on an allwork, no-play tour of war-ravaged Europe, he saw to it that his fellow Congressmen got an eye-opening look at the ugly realities of postwar Europe. Result: the Herter committee's reports came out so staunchly for aid to Europe...
...informed Red China, through India's neutralist Prime Minister Nehru, that it would have to conclude the Panmunjom talks or risk an all-out U.S. drive to win the war. Red China signed. Dulles was improvising, experimenting, learning as he went along. His next move: Indo-China. First, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Radford recommended U.S. naval air strikes to help the beleaguered French, but Dulles was against it, and the President vetoed this plan; subsequently, the French handed over North Viet Nam (pop. 14 million) to Communism. But after that, the U.S. haltingly, then decisively...
Elizabeth B. Borden will become Director of Admissions. She has been director of Women's Archives, and of the Radcliffe Seminars, since she graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe in 1950. In 1954 she received her master's degree from the College. She is also chairman of a subcommittee of the Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
First of all, there is the problem of numbers. Dean Wilbur J. Bender, Chairman of the Admissions and Scholarships Committee, is perhaps the most worried about this problem. He has seen the number of applications rise to around 4,500 this year and is concerned with the Committee's ability to measure "the subjective factor," creative intellectual ability, in applicants numbering perhaps 10,000. "It's a question of how much money the College can afford to spend on admissions," he says, "We are spending too much money now as it is and we are barely able to keep afloat...
...White '25, chairman of the Social Relations Department, said that "we did not realize the problem until quite recently, and will begin right away to encourage more Faculty members to become advisers. He pointed out that regular professors have "so many demands on their time already that they hesitate to take on the additional burden...