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...felt, the voyage kept him away from the 15th annual convention of the National Foreign Trade Council at Houston last week. He had founded the organization and never before had failed its meetings. And this one was especially important because it dealt with U. S.-Latin America trade relations. Fourteen hundred delegates were at Houston. Don Carlos G. Davila, Ambassador from Chile to the U. S. flew by airplane from Montgomery, Ala., to Houston to impress on the U. S. businessmen there the wisdom of investing in Latin American companies, and leaving the Latin Americans in control...
Reeling Atoms. Probably the most notable paper at this "most notable symposium" was the report of Professor William Draper Harkins, University of Chicago chemist. Fourteen years ago C. T. R. Wilson discovered that atoms shot at high speed through a gas, may be made to leave visible trails. Since then Professor Harkins has been trailing helium atoms. He has been busily exploding chunks of "thorium C" and other radioactive substances which shoot off atoms at the mad speed of 12,000 miles per second...
...Fourteen cups donated by former prominent Harvard athletes will be presented to winners of the various track events to be run off on Soldiers Field in the annual handicap meet next week. As was the case last year, a cup will be given to the winner of each event, most of the cups being given by former Crimson track stars. To the victor in the 100-yard dash goes the Mansfield Cup, donated by W. R. Mansfield '97 of the track team of 1895. Mansfield placed third in the Intercollegiate quarter mile at Berkeley Oval in that year...
...Whenever I play in a golf tournament I lose six pounds," said Johnny Farrell. "I lose ten," said Gene Sarazen. "When Bobby Jones played eighteen extra holes to beat Cruikshank in 1923 he lost fourteen pounds," said a statistician...
These fellowships are in the field of Anthropology, Economics, Human Geography, Political Science, Law, Phychology, Sociology, and History. Fourteen universities, from coast to coast, are represented by the Fellows selected, and the latter will gather their material from all parts of the globe. A geographer will study rural communities in Japan: an anthropologist will investigate the problem of adolescent and child psychology in A South Sea island another the adjustment of Individuals to society in a Pueblo village, a third anthropologist the background of Chicago immigrants in Steily: a political scientist will study the problem of contemporary political leadership...