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Teaching follows, who may now draw up to three-fifths of the so-called "base rate" of $3,600 will be able to draw the same fraction of $4,000. This will mean a hike of $240 for those working the maximum allowed time...
Critics should mean what they say, and say what they mean. They are reported to say that the Harvard department of Linguistics is "not distinguished." The evidence is that its international reputation is of the highest; that it is distinguished by its independence of the behaviorist school of linguistics which dictates the "party" line in other American universities; that it is distinguished by its refusal to divorce linguistics from other subjects, to languish undernourished; that it is distinguished by the lead that it has taken in Mathematical Linguistics...
...Will you please not "edit" this word? (the word is irremeable. Ed.). It is just what I mean and correctly spelled...
Nagging Worries. One newsman quoted a State Department official as saying that "the U.S. would come to the aid of Jordan if it were attacked." Did this mean that the Eisenhower Doctrine would apply, assuming that Jordan's King Hussein requested help? The President cited two vital instruments that are applicable: 1) "The May 25th [1950] statement, which was an effort to promote peace in the area as between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries, in which the U.S. joined with Britain and France in saying we would come to the aid of the victims if either were attacked...
...communique at visit's end affirmed opposition to "Communist activities" more forthrightly than Washington had expected, considering Saud's formal adherence to Egyptian Dictator Gamal-Abdel Nasser's policy of "positive neutrality." Last week Dick Richards convinced Emperor Haile Selassie that the Eisenhower Doctrine did not mean interference in Ethiopian affairs-and impressed the Emperor's countrymen, who soon dubbed Richards "the spry...