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...half-course offered for the first time this spring, Hum 119 was originally scheduled to meet in Harvard 1. After the first meeting it was rescheduled for Sanders Theatre, where Van Doren now lectures twice weekly to 900 students...
Humanities 2 has replaced Economics 1 as the non-compulsory course with the highest enrollment in the University. The combined effect of a February dropout of 23 students in Ec 1 and an increase of 25 in this half-year's Hum 2 enrollment, now totaling 720, accounted for the switch in position of the courses...
...Rivals. As in the U.S., oil and natural gas are rapidly taking over as cheaper and more convenient fuels. Most of Europe's factories, trains and homes will soon hum, run and heat on oil, and a few steel mills right in the Ruhr valley are now fired by oil. In 1960, the Common Six consumed 87 million tons of oil, or 27% of all fuel used-while coal's share dropped to 54%. By 1970, oil imports will raise the total to 48%. The discovery of natural gas in Italy's Po valley, in France...
...Board. But sewing machines are still what make Singer's business hum. A decade ago, competition from cheaper Japanese machines and technologically superior European machines such as Pfaff and Necchi had Singer breathing hard. But today Singer's American-made "Slant-O-Matic" has recaptured technological superiority, and the machines that the company makes in overseas plants to be sold in the U.S. compete with the Japanese in price. Singer now holds more than 40% of the U.S. sewing-machine market and is picking up another 2% each year. Abroad, where the fastest growth in sewing-machine sales...
...replace Phil 1, the department may allow students to take any of three introductory courses: Hum 5, Phil 75 ("The Conflict of Ideals in Modern Civilization"), or a new half-course in the "great issues and problems" in philosophical thought. The new course, Firth said might emphasize critical analysis more than Phil 1 did; during the 30 years the course was taught by Raphael Demos, Phil 1 used the historical approach to ancient and modern philosophy...