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...Jess Larson, 42, until recently general counsel for the agency, to take over when Littlejohn leaves this week. Swarthy, affable Jess Larson, ex-mayor of Chickasha, Okla., and a colonel in World War II, is expected to strengthen at least one major weakness in the Littlejohn regime-a chronic friction with Congress...
...information concerning the student that was available to the Board of Admissions, as well as placement grades and a confidential parental letter. These advisers do not necessarily pamper or subdue the individual. Rather do they help him to adapt his individuality to his college with a minimum of friction, a minimum of mistakes. They stand as interpreters of the University, not as mere representatives of its rule books. When a Freshman arrives full of eagerness to plunge into his field of concentration, such an adviser shows him the pitfalls of a narrow first year curriculum. When a Freshman is doubtful...
...inter-House committee and touched off an argument of magnificent proportions. Last week, under Student Council guidance, representatives of the inter-House Social Committee and the Union Committee agreed to agree. Although some knotty problems still face the two groups, they should reach a speedy concurrence o forestall further friction...
...descended to a low of 2,126,796. Green, the man of peace, innocently set out to solve his problems by attempting to establish a liaison with industry, to sell organized labor as a sort of super employment agency which would do away with strikes and friction...
...government emphasizes the interplay of sectional differences. Gaus earries on his specific researches on civil service and the power-man conjunction within a frame of thinking that is almost a credo. The hall mark is distinguished service. But "politics" will win unless the air of above-board teamwork replaces friction on the base level of political operations--and unless countrywide appreciation of our common cause builds inter-regional harmony...