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Joan Braverman '50, of Lowell and 36 Follen street, took office yesterday as the new president of Radcliffe's Student Government. During the past year Miss Braverman has served as Student Government treasurer and headed the student committee investigating joint examinations...
Joan Braverman '50 of 36 Follen st. and Lowell: major--English Literature; treasurer, Student Government; chairman, joint exams committee; yearbook literary staff...
General Eisenhower has a new job. On February 11 President Truman borrowed him from Columbia, and brought him back to Washington for what may turn out to be one of the General's most difficult assignments. The President designated Eisenhower to act as temporary head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as special adviser to Defense Secretary Forrestal; the general's task is to try and clear up the long-running fight between the armed services which has so severely cut the efficiency of our national security program...
Last year the services attempted to end their fights at a pair of high-level conferences, with civilian and military leaders meeting at Key West in March and Newport in December to try and thrash out their differences. These meetings soon degenerated into horse-trading sessions, in which the Joint Chiefs worked out just enough of their problems to enable them to submit a budget to the President. The Navy finally got its long-desired 58,000 ton carrier, more or less as part of a deal in which the Air Force took over all strategic bombing and the Army...
...ANIC (Azienda Nazalonale Idrogena-zione Combustibili), by putting up $6,000,000. It will get a 50% interest in a new company which will modernize and operate two ANIC refineries, with a combined daily capacity of 16,000 barrels, at Leghorn and Bari. Caltex Oil Products Ho., joint subsidiary of the Texas Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California, bought an interest in Italy's Petrolea S.A., subsidiary of FIAT. Caltex will build a $15 million plus, 10,000-daily-barrel refinery in the Po Valley. Like Standard's new Italian reineries, Caltex will process crude from Saudi...