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...March, 1954, provided that entering freshmen could get full credit for secondary school courses of recognized College level--equivalents of French 20 or Math la, for example. If a "freshman" demonstrated on his placement tests that he had earned three full-course credits in this way, he would immediately gain official sophomore standing and all its privileges, such as freedom from Physical Training and the right to enter a field of concentration. (He would also, presumably, move into a House, but overcrowding currently makes this impossible.) Meanwhile, if a freshman had only one or two advanced credits he would still...
...line with this approach the Council last week voted soccer a major sport, after the team had raised its letter requirements and had finished a triumphant season. At its next meeting, the Council will pass on cross country. To gain consideration, however, the cross country team should not have to rely merely on publicity via walkie-talkie. Cross country demands just a much athletic effort as any major sport, yet remains minor by official edict. Since cross country's standards for letter awards are already high, the Council should end this inconsistency and raise it to major status...
...Sense of Power. If the amber lights now being shown by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. do not change to red in coming months, travel to Moscow should gain, travel experts estimate, by several hundred Americans next year. Russia, too, is sending forth travelers, but they are men with a mission, whether political, like Bulganin and Khrushchev in India (see FOREIGN NEWS), or cultural, like Violinist David Oistrakh (see Music). Not for them the satisfaction of idle interests...
Against the crackdown were the rightists and neo-Nazis generally referred to in Argentina as nationalists: a group of unreconstructed Perónistas who hoped to ride back to influence with the nationalists; new right-wing or centrist parties, some under Roman Catholic auspices. Any of these might gain strength by attracting old Peronistas, whose party is now leaderless. Their spokesmen: Presidential Press Secretary Carlos Goyeneche and Army Minister Leon Bengoa...
...that Degas made famous with his paintings. But the studies are far from being ancient relics from th past. The wax figurines by their very defects-the mark of being studio studies their unfinished surfaces, even the thumb prints left by Degas' nervous, racing hands as he worked-gain a sense of startling immediacy...