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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last summer, Secretary of State Dulles gave an enthusiastic endorsement to the Wriston Committee's report on improvement in the United States Foreign Service. The State Department, however, still has made no move to gain Congressional authorization for one of the Committee's major proposals, the creation of a national scholarship system for prospective Foreign Service officers. Congressmen have not been so dilatory. The new session had barely opened last month when several cager Representatives introduced bills calling for a National Foreign Service Academy, a plan which the State Department has opposed in the past. Since its officials have freely...
...national average of two applicants for every place available in medical schools shows a "healthy reserve," according to Emerson, who is also Director of Admissions. Few people have the necessary qualities to be doctors, he said, and those who do almost never fail to gain admission to some medical school...
Tomorrow night the East's top-ranked sextet faces its only real Ivy challenge, a starry but teamless Brown squad. The Crimson will be out to erase memories of its previous tie with the quick-tempered Bruins and to gain undisputed possession of the League lead, which it now shares with Brown. The face-off is at 9 p.m., in the Lynn Arena...
Kirkland defeated Dunster, 58-50, in overtime last night to gain undisputed possession of first place in League "A" intramural basketball, with a 9-2 record. Dunster now is pushed into third place, while idle Winthrop moves down into second position. In another overtime battle, Lowell beat Leverett, 43-41. The Bellboys now stand fourth in the League, with a 7-4 record...
Political spokesmen for organized labor, echoing Democratic campaigners of last fall, still refer to 1954 as a recession year. But union economists last week reported to the American Federation of Labor executive council in Miami Beach, Fla. that wage increases in 1954 "provided more of a gain in real wages [e.g., purchasing power] than increases in other postwar years, for they were almost entirely over and beyond the amount needed to compensate for rises in the cost of living." The report showed that two-thirds of 1954 union-management contracts brought wage increases of 5? to 9? and about...