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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British and the Egyptians finally settled their accounts on the 1956 Suez war. For six weeks they had haggled over 700 acres of land near Alexandria owned by Joseph Smouha, 83-year-old Iraqi-born Jew known as the wealthiest British subject in Egypt (TIME. March 2). Solution of the Smouhaha. as the British called it: the Egyptians would give him back the race track, golf course and other built-up property that they had seized from him after the British landings. But they would keep the surrounding farm land which, for tax purposes, he had valued unusually...
...problem of extracurricular activities is easily met by what Wilcox calls "the most beneficial and least known provision of the program." The A.P. Sophomore is free to delay his degree a year and spend two terms as an undergraduate taking a number of courses in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...such classes, eliminates any possibility of Sophomore Standing. In addition, many high school teachers think advanced courses are merely intensive duplication of the usual fare, rather than presentations of new material. Wilcox expects the present reluctance to "push" promising students to disappear as the advantages of acceleration become widely known...
Mysterious Trio. The man who is destined to win the Grail through his design for a festival pavilion is of a different, tougher breed. Marko Zuckerman's eyes speak, "Mongol-wise," of historic rapacity and plunder. His past is a mystery; all that is known of him is that he fled Hungary after World War II, showed up briefly in Paris with a big wad of money, then settled in Britain to amass more...
...around to doing Tom Swift in Siberia, the hero may very well be a fellow like Venka Malishev. Like Tom, Venka is unfailingly brave and resourceful -but he is also a dedicated Communist. In Siberia during the 1920s, young Venka is an agent of the secret police (then known as OGPU). His main job is to hunt down the "bandits," who are fiercely anti-Soviet, have a large part of the population on their side, and live off the country. On skis and on horseback, he scouts the Siberian forests, running down his quarry while he dreams...