Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main speakers at the seminar will be President Emeritus James B. Conant, who will address a general assembly on the topic, "Modern Foreign Languages in the High School Curriculum." According to Miss Marjorie H. Nicholson, chairman of the conference's arrangement committee, Conant's speech is of particular importance because of "the pyramiding belief that the teaching of modern languages is as vital to America's future as the teaching of science...
...Cornell grad, I was pleased as punch to learn that my old Alma Mater outdoes Harvard in at least one thing: the teaching of modern foreign languages...
...owners say that they would like nothing better than to run their ships under the U.S. flag and manned by U.S. seamen. But they claim that high U.S. wages and taxes force them to fly foreign flags to compete in the international market. It costs $44,000 per month to run a U.S.-flag Liberty ship, $19,000 per month for a Liberian-flag Liberty ship. U.S. tax law requires a vessel to be amortized over 20 years, whereas convenience-flag ships usually do it in ten. The U.S. Maritime Administration recognizes these economic facts of life, tacitly encourages...
Legal Tangles. At week's end, partially as a result of the attacks on the PanLibHonCo nations. Costa Rica canceled the registration of 128 foreign-owned ships in arrears on tax payments, said it would go ahead with plans to abandon all convenience-flag registration at the end of this month. Greek shipowners agreed to negotiate with the Greek seamen's union for more jobs; U.S. unions said that they will continue to boycott...
This raises the prospect of involved legal tangles in U.S. courts. Last week, when American and Greek owners of foreign-flag vessels sought injunctions to halt picketing, judges differed on what rights they were entitled to. Wrote London's Financial Times: "The international labour boycott is a dangerous and, in principle, undesirable practise; on the other hand, these shipowners have deliberately put themselves outside national loyalties and cannot claim their protection. They cannot ask for the benefit of responsibilities they do not accept, or of taxes they...