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Charged with holding NATO's southern flank and the entire Middle East from Communist penetration, the 500,000-man Turkish army forms the largest national contribution to the West's European forces. Along with the somewhat less impressive army of neighboring Greece--currently distracted from full co-operation by the divisive Cyprus issue--the Turkish army is responsible for defending a 1400-mile armed frontier stretching from Albania on the west to the Russian Cauccasus on the east. Yet, despite recent Soviet missile threats, this exposed position involves hazards that are nothing new for the Turks, who for centuries, have...
Also present at the dinner, the second largest the Chamber of Commerce has held, were Edward J. Sullivan, Mayor of Cambridge, Samuel H. Beer, Chairman of the Department of Government, Dean Watson, and Edward L. Pattullo, Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Jersey threatened to spin out the best remaining elements in town. Newark's long-entrenched, pie-splitting, five-commissioner government was whirling merrily along, copying notorious Jersey City in petty graft and inefficiency. In despair, big insurance companies (Newark is the U.S.'s second-largest insurance city) took out options on suburban sites, blueprinted plans to take their bulky payrolls out of the city. Then early in 1953, a handful of worried citizens, encouraged by the Newark News, sat down to map a counterattack against apathy and decay. Says President Robert Cowan of the National Newark & Essex Banking...
...coming of the turbojet will multiply the problems of airports that are crowded, inconvenient and sometimes dangerous even for today's DC-75. The jets will weigh 300,000 Ibs. fully loaded, v. 150,000 Ibs. for the largest piston-engine airliner now in use, making most present runways too short for safety, and the hot breath of jet-engine exhausts will melt many runway and taxi-strip surfaces. Moreover, since six jetliners arriving close together will disembark as many passengers as an ocean liner, the passenger, baggage and ticketing jams of today will pale beside tomorrow...
Four courses not among last year's leaders have joined the top ten. Soc Sci 1, Comp Lit 166, English 123, and History 169 replaced Fine Arts 13, Music 1, Soc Sci 4, and Nat Sci 3. Fine Arts 13 took the largest drop, falling from fourth to twenty-first place...