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...present the "A" student in Economics, for example, has approximately one-fourth the chance of receiving a summa than his counterpart has in Physics or Mathematics. While this might be partially explained by the nature of the fields (or the age at which significant contributions are made in the sciences as opposed to the social sciences), the discrepancy is far too large. The student in the social sciences should be placed in a more even competitive position...
CAMBODIA. Apart from promising Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutralist wonderland a 500-bed hospital. Russia has left aid to Cambodia largely in the hands of Communist China, which has adopted its own version of U.S. counterpart aid schemes. Periodically Peking sends Cambodia free shipments of cotton textiles, galvanized iron, raw silk, cement and other Chinese products. These goods-last August shipments were valued at $5,000,000-are sold on the local market by the Cambodian government, and the proceeds are spent on dams, irrigation schemes and low-cost loans to farmers. The catch is that the caliber...
...last week sent three missiles streaming into the Atlantic skies from Florida, and marked the most important week of U.S. missile firing to date. From the hot launching pads at Cape Canaveral Test Center shot the Air Force's intermediate-range Thor, the Army's counterpart Jupiter and-successfully for the first time-the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas...
...thousand Harvard kidneys are safe from kidney stones, at least those stones brought on by a large consumption milk. William A. Heaman, Manager of Dining Halls, revealed last night that the Harvard undergraduate, contrary to his liquid-loving Yalie counterpart, drinks an average of two glasses per meal...
...France comes an nin. metal shower ($9.95) that uses water, and from Japan a stove-and-sink combination ($3.95) with a burner that lights up and a tap that runs water, and a battery-operated automatic washing machine ($3) that washes doll clothes almost as efficiently as its adult counterpart...