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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...data from dependent areas. The life of the group was recently extended three years by a vote of 41 to 4, with Britain, France, Belgium, and South Africa in the minority. Britain complained that information was being used by Russia for propaganda purposes, and that the committee had been given an "illegal" assignment to study political questions. The British also felt that reports should be made on all backward areas, self-governing as well as dependent...
...reference to academic standing will be made in issuing the grant, while precedence will be given to those who have contributed significantly to college life...
...weeks will be spent working on a cooperative farm; then the group returns to its "families" for another week and concludes the second month with a tour of northern and southern Israel. Exceptionally good physical condition is a pre-requisite of this trip, and preference for membership will be given to non-Jewish students...
...White, poet, humorists, and editorial for the New Yorker, has written something called "Here is New York," has given it meaning, and has done all this in 54 pages. He did in the only conceivable manner: One summer day he left his sometime home in Maine (where the serenity of the pine trees would not let a man write well about New York) and moved to "a stiffing hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown...
White has also given voice to a vague fear which may cling to the pride which New Yorkers take in their town, a fear which "sticks in all our heads...