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About four-fifths of the residents of Yale's Jonathan Edwards college boycotted the evening meal recently in one of Yale's largest dining hall revolts in years. The action was in response to wide-spread illness reportedly caused by food poisoning...
...eight tiny Leeward Islands, 1,000 miles to the east, of which Antigua (108 sq. mi.) is the largest. Site of Alexander Hamilton's birthplace (Nevis, 1757) and Britain's first toehold in the Spanish Main (St. Kitt's, 1623), the Leewards are historically rich, economically poor...
...President Thomas J. Watson Jr. of International Business Machines Corp. announced that in memory of his father ("Think"), IBM is launching one of the largest scholarship programs ever undertaken by a single company. With the help of the National Merit Scholarship Corp., IBM will each year pick (on a competitive basis) 25 children of employees and 25 seniors from secondary schools all over the U.S. for four-year scholarships of varying amounts. In addition to the scholarships. IBM will provide a special cost-of-education gift to each school chosen by its winners. The average annual tab to be picked...
...Algom operation is (the two mines and mills have a daily ore-processing capacity of 6,000 tons, double the largest U.S. operation), their output will be only a fraction of Rio Tinto's eventual production. The company's three Northspan mines ($275 million in government contracts) are set to start producing before the end of 1957; its Milliken Lake mine ($94 million in contracts) by March 1958. Rio Tinto's smaller Pronto mine (1,250 tons of ore daily) was opened in 1955 but ran into production troubles, now being taken care of in an enlargement...
Last weekend the team participated at the Coast Guard Academy in the largest shoulder to shoulder intercollegiate meet that has taken place so far. An unofficial score of 1375 placed the team eight among 15 competitors...