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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...K. FRANK...
...careers of 1,390 Harvard students who went on to medical school from 1949-56: grades and academic honors weigh heavily in determining admission to medical school, but a student's 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...
...Kure, Japan, the onetime Japanese Imperial Naval Yard, now operated by U.S. Tanker Tycoon Daniel K. Ludwig's National Bulk Carriers, Inc., launched the world's largest tanker, the 104,500-ton (loaded) Universe Apollo. The first of five planned supertankers, the Universe surpasses the largest previous bulk carriers, Ludwig's 85,000-ton tankers. With a length of 950 ft. and a beam of 135 ft., Universe Apollo is the widest merchant ship afloat, and the third longest (ranking after the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary...
...Administration, Lattimore asserted, is not even considering the possibility, for instance, that the people of Taiwan will choose to return to China rather than remain independent. John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, commenting on the point raised by Lattimore, said the United States "would be smart to come out openly with a decision to accept the expression any time in the future of the people of Taiwan to join the mainland...
...K. Price, Jr., the newly-appointed Dean of the School of Public Administration, will give approximately one-third of the lectures in Government 130, "National Government," this spring...