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Britain is considering a one-third cut in its defense budget - upwards of $1 billion a year-designed to ease the strained economy and conform to Prime Minister Eden's theories about "modern weapons" and "strategic changes in other nations." Up to now the British have viewed the next war as a trading of H-bombs followed by a "broken-backed" struggle for recovery, but they now accept the doctrine of U.S. Admiral Arthur Radford and other top British and U.S. airmen that the first big blow will settle things. The British therefore want to concentrate on guided missiles...
...Senate sent the bills, designed to modify the electoral college so as to conform more nearly to the popular vote, back to the Judiciary Committee Tuesday for further study...
...freshman proposal had advocated changing the parietal rules in the yard to conform with those for the rest of the College. Though freshmen would have lost the weekday hours between 1 and 4 p.m., they would have gained time until 11 p.m. on Saturday night. The Sunday hours from 1 to 7 p.m. and weekday from 4 to 7 p.m. would have been retained...
...Union Committee, in the final letter of their suggestion which von Stade had requested, voted unanimously to change the freshman regulations to conform with those in the Houses...
...Harvard Union Committee has unanimously recommended extension of Freshman parietal rules to conform with upperclass regulations, Marc E. LeLand '59, head of the subcommittee backing the proposal, said last night...