Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome thinks .of us, no matter how small and unimportant we may be." Last week Cardinal Agaganian plunged into a six-day tour of Catholic missions on Formosa and the Pescadores Islands. Already he carried in his portfolio an urgent request from Chiang Kai-shek's government for closer Vatican ties; in exchange, Agaganian may ask draft exemption for students for the priesthood and permission to build more schools for the island's growing Catholic flock (now 114,000). Next week, after celebrating Mass in Taipei's Armed Forces Stadium, the cardinal moves on to Korea...
...Gross was the house expert against whom contestants on the now defunct TV show, Two for the Money, gambled with their answers. Gross decided onstage, and without a chance to crib from reference books, whether the answers were correct, seldom had to back down. An extramural job that comes closer to the complexity of his new one: his chairmanship, since...
...wonders of hybrid corn are still surprising the scientists. For example, last year Illinois Farmer James Holderman decided to try a new type of hybrid corn, even though the experts warned him it was not suitable for his land. He doubled the amount of fertilizer, planted the rows closer together, and his yield jumped to 175 bu. an acre, compared to an average 70 bu. The corn was so thick that his mechanical picker just barely got through it. Now corn experts are studying Holderman's experiment to see exactly what happened-and if it should be recommended...
...Government moved a step closer to mandatory controls of oil imports. In its report last week to President Eisenhower, the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization recommended a new compulsory import schedule to replace the voluntary curbs, which OCDM apparently felt have not cut imports enough...
...many years the Dean of the College has had a room in the Yard where he could go to avoid the continual press of phone calls, meetings and so forth, but Monro decided this year that he would have his quarters in a House, where he would be closer to the majority of the student body...