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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already this year, 19 first-year Law students, from the Class of 1961, have left the University, Topefer added. This figure is four or five higher than normal, but it does not approach last year's total of 26 by the end of January. No breakdown of undergraduate records has been given for this group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Majors Lead Drop Outs Of First Year Law School Men | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...fashion over whisky and soda with Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson and Democratic House Speaker Sam Rayburn at the White House. At his third weekly press conference in a row, the President read a long, prepared statement urging fiscal responsibility: "I don't believe that we should have higher taxes, and I do not believe that the U.S. wants higher taxes. That means to me living within your income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUDGET: Spending--by the Numbers | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...prosperity. Given last year's vaunted "great leap forward" in the Year of the Dog in the production of everything from steel to sesame seeds, and given all their own hard work, mainland China's hard-pressed masses had every reason to expect to be eating higher on the hog. Instead, they are living through some of the hardest times since Mao Tse-tung took power in Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Too Much Too Soon | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...written in terms which the least sophisticated can really grasp, equipped with check lists and inventories which a ten-year-old could easily administer. The appeal throughout is to that great political slogan: individual freedom and variation. Although the major emphasis of the report is on providing higher academic standards for the intelligent minority, this appeal is surrounded with recommendations which appeal to every special interest group from vocationalism to the mentally retarted...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Pres. Conant, Adm. Rickover: 2 Prescriptions for Our Time | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

...starts Friday night with a good meal (the only one of the weekend) at the Hanover Inn. Nobody goes broke since the prices here at the plushest restaurant in town are no higher than at Cronin's. After dinner, Outdoor Evening's skating is climaxed with the crowning of a Carnival queen before a mildly enthusiastic crowd...

Author: By Judith Blitman and Joanna Burnstine, S | Title: Winter Carnival: Reflections of a Mad Age | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

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