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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During my almost seven years of tenure as Ambassador of Sweden, no article of such a vicious nature regarding my country has ever appeared in any responsible American newspaper or magazine ... It is perhaps true that the number of extramarital births are higher in Sweden than in the U.S.-although the perfected Swedish statistics may have something to do with the relatively high percentage. This percentage is not higher than in a number of other Western countries...
...question to raise this objection. The student could be tested orally and his grade then incorporated with his grade on the written examination as constituting his language requirement examination grade. An alternative solution might be in eliminating the "requirement" examination altogether, simply requiring a grade of B plus or higher, say, to entitle a student to exemption from the requirement of another year of language. John M. Hirach '54 Yale Law School
...stream of earnings reports reached flood stage last week, it appeared that 1955's first quarter was the best ever for many U.S. corporations. The combined first-quarter earnings of 484 corporations was 27.2% higher than for the same period a year ago, dividend payments to stockholders were up 6%, and only 17 companies failed to show a profit...
Earlier Birds. Other corporations, in on the recovery from the start, reported big gains in first-quarter earnings. The steel industry set the pace ; combined first-quarter earnings of 33 steel companies were almost 70% higher than a year ago. U.S. Steel, by earning $72,652,402 in 1955's first three months, topped the record of $61,379,757 for that period, set in 1917. And, said Board Chairman Benjamin Fairless, earnings and production for the full year should be better than any previous year except 1953. Not to be outdone, Bethlehem Steel announced that its first-quarter...
...Freshman Debate Council defeated both Yale and Princeton last night to win the triangular championship. Debating the topic, "Resolved, That the Federal Government should subsidize the higher education of superior students," one Crimson group won the affirmative at Princeton and another the negative in a unanimous decision here. James L. Kincaid, on the affirmative team, received the best speaker award...