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At Lisbon, the harness was lightened. To do the work of 35 to 40 ministers, who were too busy with their own domestic concerns to devote much time to NATO, a new day-to-day council of 14 full-time ambassadors from NATO's 14 countries was set up...
Agent Gillis was no expert at first, but he became one by talking to book dealers and poring through Peking's Metropolitan Library. He managed to find one of the three existing complete sets (5,020 volumes) of the 1728 Chinese Encyclopedia. He also sent home a priceless rubbing...
Proponents of the plan, including Dartmouth Coach DeOrmond "Tuss" McLaughry, have hold that freshmen would benefit because they would be under the immediate close supervision of the varsity coaches. In the fall, the varsity staff has little or no time to devote to the freshmen.
"It is my conviction that we should, and I hope that in the coming months the different faculties here at Harvard will give careful consideration to this question. No one type of institution alone is involved. It seems to me that the four-year liberal arts colleges which are separate...
"We haven't the time in the fall to devote to really intensive individual instruction. But in the spring, when the pressure's off, coaches can work with boys individually, paying close attention to each one's needs.