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...petits mentaux often become les grands mentaux at exam time. By U.S. or any other standards, French exams are among the world's most exacting. Many students suffer "exam collapse" and (in extreme cases) "exam psychosis." Although students who flunk can try again a half-year later, they see a first failure as a personal humiliation. To an alarming extent, students use stimulating drugs to keep themselves going through their final swotting: sales of Maxiton (an amphetamine) zoom from 10,000 boxes a month to 120,000 during the May-July exam season and university authorities have issued posters...
McDonald temporarily replaces F. Skiddy von Stade, who has been granted a half-year's leave of absence. Von Stade, who has been Dean of Freshmen for four years, will journey abroad this summer, and will return to his present position next February...
Those men who choose to serve only a half-year will be assigned to "active participation" with reserve units, the Army said. This means they will be required to participate in drills about once a week for 7 1/2 years...
General Motors ran up a second-quarter profit of $351,555,080 v. $236,083,050 for the same period a year ago, and a half-year net of $661 million v. $425 million last year, despite a 25% decline in defense sales. Jersey Standard's peak $344 million for the half year topped 1954's six months' profit, $293 million...
Other new half-year marks: RCA went 14% over last year, to $22,061,000: United Air Lines soared 72% to $4,272,080; U.S. Rubber expanded 32%, to $19,005,463; American Can went up 10%, to $14,417,672. Western Union about doubled its six months' income, to $6,610,847, as did Pittsburgh Plate Glass, to $32,562,512. Even Pat McGinnis' New Haven Railroad, which has made many enemies among its commuters during 1955's first half, also made money: its six months' net was $5,990,461 (including...