Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boosting overall trade between the two countries to a whopping $152 million, of which $100 million represents a favorable balance for the Communists. Bank of China also engages in such un-bankerish activities as the financing of trips of Malayan students and businessmen to China, the charging of minimal interest for unsecured loans to favored individuals, and the relaying home of economic, political and military information...
...chance to own gold bars holds an appeal for both ultracautious and speculative buyers. Investors willing to pay cash, forgo dividends and interest, and accept the hazard of a gradual decline in the buying power of their money, can get high safety and liquidity. Speculators can buy a 1-kilo bar for as little as $34 margin plus $63 a year on the unpaid balance, stand to turn a handsome profit if the price of gold should rise. In effect, they bet that the U.S. Treasury, which has been able to corner more than half of the free world...
...choice of major-assuming he has met minimum science requirements-has no bearing. Writes Author Dean K. Whitla, director of Harvard's office of tests: "It would be regrettable if some of our students who plan to become doctors felt that they must turn away from their interest in the liberal arts for fear of being rejected at medical school without a premedical major." Surprise of the study: at Harvard Medical School, premed-prepared students do better the first year, but by the third year they fall slightly behind students who majored in the social sciences...
Division of Labor. At the Red Scarf factory, students work according to a "rational division of labor." Children seven to nine years old, the party press notes, generally like to collect nails and bits of wood and carry them in their pockets. This interest is channeled "into the field of significant labor activity" by sending the children outside the factory for two hours each day "to pick iron, scraps, dig and sift ore, gather wood and collect broken bits of earthenware." Students 14 and 15 years old "do the simple jobs of making molds, preparing materials, taking care of machinery...
...reported that Reid will leave his operating post on the Trib this month, with no fixed plans for the future. He will still be connected with the Trib: he and brother Whitelaw, 45, are on the five-man board of directors, and the family still has a "substantial" interest in the business. Jock Whitney is still looking for a topnotch news executive to take Reid's place, for the time being will leave control in the hands of Howard D. Brundage, board member and chairman of the executive committee...