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Besides being available, midyear admissions provide a variety of advantages. One is the academic backbone they lend to many small colleges: with fresh applicants, the schools need not flinch at flunking out students for fear of losing tuition income. Another beneficiary is the top-of-the-class high school senior who might as well get an early crack at college. Less qualified high school graduates, on the other hand, need not enter college in the fall, but can wait until midyear and use the time to prepare themselves better. And if they enter colleges with the quarter system, they...
Died. Warren Robinson Austin, 85, onetime Republican Senator from Vermont and first U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; of pneumonia; in Burlington, Vt. In the Senate, Austin was an outspoken internationalist who championed lend-lease in 1941 with a thunderously applauded oration: "I say that a world enslaved to Hitler is worse than war, and worse than death." Appointed to the U.N. by Harry Truman, he was a rough-and-ready adversary of Soviet propaganda efforts. His most dramatic hour came in 1950 when he answered Moscow's attempt to charge the U.S. with aggression in Korea. Austin held...
Rolling Reconsideration. Since the beginning of this year's third quarter, the economy has shown some peculiar dips that lend support to Stahl's retrenchment thesis (see chart). The industrial production index fell fractionally in October and stayed down in November. Business inventories dipped significantly in August. A number of industries have cut back on employment-most notably the steel industry, which has laid off nearly 73,000 workers since last March...
...loving ear to all I lend...
...provincialisms, and staffed by teachers with palpable incentives to teach; and he has the vigor to persuade other educators of the need for radical reform. One's only fear about the appointment is that the job's wretched history and low status--to which Harvard Deanship itself managed to lend a certain weight--will neutralize his efforts. Secretary Celebrezze, education floor leaders in the Congress, and the President will have to take the new Commissioner seriously, for this alone can compensate for the University's enormous loss...