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...alternate delegate to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights: Donald W. Eastvold, 33, lean, eager-looking attorney general of Washington state. Televiewers remember Eastvold's bold and brilliant leadership ("Beware a young man with a book") in the successful fight against the seating of the Taftist Georgia delegation at last summer's Republican convention...
Perkins likes his job, which he compares to boot-legging, because one meets such interesting people. "It's the best job you can have if your tastes run that way, and mine do," he explains. A lean and balding six-footer who wears glasses so he can see across the class room, Perkins has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of Harvard history and lore. But he will get up during even a casual conversation for a book to verify a name or a class, a habit which he charges, off to a historian's insistence on exactitude. Perkins' field is Eighteenth...
Under this system, if the military units still want to teach their liberalized subjects, they would do well to concentrate this material in the first two years, leaving the more technical detail for the later, credit-lean years In the first place, those students dropped from the corps after two year cannot use the straight military subject matter. And if the advanced courses were just routine memorization they would require less work...
...hope of coming up with a better solution before the new support year ends, Benson last week called a "work conference" of dairymen and Agriculture Department experts to study the whole problem. Unless they can find a real remedy, the dairy industry will continue to lean on the federal Government, and the U.S. taxpayer will still have to buy butter and watch it turn rancid in Government ware houses. Said Llewellyn Watts Jr., president of the New York Mercantile Exchange: "It's beginning to look like the dairy farmer stands a good chance of just about ceasing...
...Greenbriar suite of Cleveland's Terminal Tower, lean, white-thatched old Cyrus S. Eaton, 70, invited newsmen last week, to tell them of one of the biggest and most successful deals of his roller-coaster career. Chicago's Inland Steel Co., eighth biggest in the U.S., had agreed to put up $50 million for development of Eaton's Steep Rock iron-ore deposits at Steep Rock Lake, Ont. As part of the deal, Eaton's own Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd. got an $8,000,000 loan from Inland to help develop its own diggings...