Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Review published a provocative issue on "Harvard 1956" which strongly advocates increased independent reading and small individual conferences between student and tutor (Harvard's name for an instructor who works with an individual or small groups outside the regular course plan). i.e. went so far as to demand an end to the lecture system, a suggestion at which most undergraduates balked, but generally the cry of i.e. was accepted as one bearing a good deal of merit. The CRIMSON itself came out repeatedly before and after this article with various plans for independent study, and the Faculty's powerful...
...backed alternative: a price support based on 90% of the average market price over the previous three years before the crop is raised and sold. Beginning with parity-inflated market prices, the new formula would let prices slip by easy stages until, says Benson, the law of supply and demand begins to take over and surpluses begin to sell. Props are to move toward market levels for corn, cotton, rice and feed grains (oats, rye, barley and grain sorghums). Wheat, tobacco and peanuts, as well as milk, still have separate programs, a more-or-less deliberate tactic that helps Benson...
Accidentally Neutral. If there was a world demand for summit talks about the Middle East, the French were in less of a hurry to gratify it. French diolomats blamed the stampede to the summit on an appeasement of British Labor, and thought it bad to base Western policy on an opposition that holds no responsibility. Piqued at first at being excluded from the U.S.-British foray into the Middle East, the French had been congratulating themselves ever since. "It saved France from making a blunder," said Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. The French quickly saw in their accidental neutrality...
...Nickel surpluses already total 180 million lbs., and current demand could double without a production increase. International Nickel, which dominates the industry, is holding prices stable...
...Zinc production is down from 600,000 tons a year to 450,000 tons. The Government is now out of the market; excess stocks of 150,000 tons would permit a rise in demand of 25% without strain...