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Warns the American Medical Association committee on cosmetics: "There is undeniable evidence that the effects of the sun are cumulative and at some point irreversible. The evidence is clear that chronic exposure to sunlight can be one of the major factors in the production of precancerous and cancerous conditions of the skin...
Despite a chronic shortage of funds, the Ed School during the last ten years has impressively expanded its programs in teacher training and research. The faculty has been greatly enlarged and overhauled, and the School has gone a long way toward closing its historic rift with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Program donations were insufficient to meet even the current needs of the library. In 1962 lack of funds forced the suspension of the Harvard Library Bulletin, and cataloguing lies hopelessly in arrears because of a chronic staff shortage. A cut-back drastic enough to make present income sufficient would involve giving up something like half the collection, and closing a number of buildings. Harvard would have to abdicate its traditional library pre-eminence...
...overstating the case. Since the end of World War II, Flanders has capitalized on a healthy dollop of U.S. aid to industrialize and acquire a patina of prosperity, while Wallonia, with its played-out coal mines, has been plagued by chronic unemployment. Last year, when violent riots broke out between the two factions, the Flemish majority in Parliament passed a law dividing Belgium into two separate unilingual sections along a line extending from the German border south of Aachen to the French frontier; to the north, Flemish would be the official language in schools, courts and administrative offices...
...calling themselves the President's Club, chipped in $1,000 each to throw a birthday party for Kennedy at the Waldorf-Astoria. He would not be 46 for six more days, but it was a good excuse to come to the aid of the Democratic Party's chronic deficit with an estimated $600,000. During the dinner, a smiling Kennedy table-hopped to shake the generous hands. Alan Jay Lerner, the My Fair Lady lyricist and a Kennedy schoolmate at Choate and Harvard, directed a show-biz crowd that included Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong, and Brother...