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...College Board is mainly studying the idea rather than examining any one set proposal. It may eventually employ a completely different system to meet the same problem...
...Scholarship office--which used to employ credit checks on the return sheets but which since has given it up--finds that few parents object to the particular form. Approximately 300 fill out the blank each year, only about 10 complain, and one or two refuse to fill...
...G.I.s, the U.S. Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) ran into a mutiny: 16 major universities out of 46 campuses affiliated with USAFI flatly refused to sign the 1954 contract. The offending clause, which the 16 felt was an invitation to federal control of American education: "The contractor will not employ or retain for the performance of services under this contract such persons as are disapproved by the Government." Among the universities pulling out: Michigan, California, Illinois, North Carolina, Minnesota and Wisconsin...
...Crop? Next week, for the first time since 1942, U.S. wheat farmers will vote on whether they want marketing quotas imposed on next year's crop. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is basically against controls, but the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act forced him to employ the marketing restriction because of the huge supply. Benson has fixed 62 million acres as the maximum U.S. wheat acreage for 1954, compared to 78 million this year. The Department of Agriculture is setting farm-by-farm acreage allotments. The average cut for wheat farmers...
...defense of the Middle East is their own concern. They are anxious to take the complete responsibility of the defense of this area. They categorically reject any interference from the West . . . We have declared our readiness to maintain the Suez Canal base in perfect shape and therefore accepted to employ British technicians until the time when we shall have sufficient technicians...