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...years thereafter, Conant was partly responsible for the World War II decision to make an atomic bomb and to use it at Hiroshima in 1945. As president of Harvard (1933-53), the self-effacing but stubborn Conant instituted a number of improvements that changed the character of higher education: he broadened the makeup of the student body, argued for a core curriculum of "general education" and promoted national scholarships. He left Harvard to become High Commissioner to Germany and subsequently the first Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1957, Conant conducted...
With production heading higher, unemployment dropping and profits climbing, businessmen by all rights ought to be bullish. Quite the opposite: last week brought two new signs that they are still deeply worried. The stock market, that sometimes distorted mirror of investment hopes and fears, tumbled 22 points, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average, to a 34-month low of 753. And a McGraw-Hill poll of executives in eleven industrial countries found U.S. businessmen second from the bottom in confidence about the future. Only profit-pinched Belgian managers were more apprehensive...
Members of TIME'S Board of Economists predict that the Federal Reserve soon will ease its Regulation Q and allow commercial banks to pay higher interest on passbook savings, which can be withdrawn at any time. Regulation Q now sets a ceiling of 5% on them. If that is raised, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board also would have to permit savings and loans to pay more than their present 5½% maximum. Otherwise, savers would be tempted to pull out their money and invest it in Treasury bills and other paper that yield...
Sometimes, when beholding the contractual orgies that professionals indulge in, bidding their prices higher and higher as the years pass, it is possible to suspect that the whole professional sports business artificially prolongs athletes' careers, keeps them slogging along for huge sums of money long after their powers have faded. Occasionally that happens. But men and women in most sports do not even reach athletic maturity until they are well into their 20s, or even later. It was not until she had hit 31 that Virginia Wade won Wimbledon last year...
...hour for a studio set-up. However, the School of Education offers non-credit video courses to its students only--no cross-registration is allowed. You can rent equipment from OIT's studios, the Video Service Center at Cruft Laboratory and the Video Production Center at Kresge at even higher rates. You can also rent from various companies in the Boston area...