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...guided missiles. After spending only 10% of its procurement funds on missiles in 1954, the U.S. will boost the outlay to 35% ($1.7 billion) for unmanned warbirds, and probably achieve a 50-50 split by 1960. For planemakers who have concentrated heavily on standard air frames, it will mean a rapid rejuggling of their production, the prospect of some thin years...
...manifestations of the revival are all about. The CRIMSON gives a typical sample by insisting that we need creative artists in Cambridge if the academic community is to remain healthy. A resident artist asserts that summa cum laude in Fine Arts should mean more than telling Monet from Manet. An English professor says that the study of English letters requires participation as well as observation...
...have come to believe that a liberal education does not mean the acquisition of information, but the molding of attitudes. And where we used to depend upon exposure to mold these attitudes, we are coming to realize that participation is a more effective way of inducing them...
Part of the answer lies in the new Houses, which will meet part of the demand for cheap housing. But will this mean that all those who want cheap rooms will flock to the new houses, resurrecting the old Gold Coast situation? We hope not. Somehow the University must find a way to spread the savings evenly through the whole House system. Yet this means that students who live in the new Houses will be paying more than their rooms are worth to subsidize the residents of other Houses, which will hardly make the new houses very attractive...
...came from Stockholder Sol A. Dann, a pixyish Detroit attorney who makes management-baiting a hobby, represents only a small number of American's 48,500 shareholders. Dann demanded that American merge with some profit-making company, or liquidate and pay off stockholders. But either choice would mean even bigger losses, said management. The book value of the company would be far less if it were not a going concern. By holding out, American has a chance to make its stock more valuable in any future merger. "Then for God's sake," cried Dann...