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...firm has expanded its operations in France, doubling its stockholdings in Standard-Hotchkiss, a French tractor maker, to 50%. But energetic Al Thornbrough still looks to the U.S. for the even bigger market that Massey-Ferguson must have before it can shuck all its troubles. He has purchased Mid-Western Industries of Wichita, Kans., a leader in the light industrial-equipment field, doubled the size of the Detroit tractor plant. Before long, he will announce a brand-new line of larger tractors designed especially for the U.S. market...
Tonight the varsity may be on the short end of a somewhat similar score as it tackles the Russian amateur team at the Boston Garden. The Soviets have won four games and tied one against the United States amateur team and mid-western college sextets
...College needs a student union--like those on many mid-Western campuses--to provide space for Harvard-Radcliffe student groups, Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, said last night. "We cannot allow these organizations to use the Houses for their meetings because we don't have sufficient room," he explained...
Nevertheless, the principal is probably correct when he says that "Horace Mann at least ranks above the typical mid-western high school." It is one of the two best high schools in Gary, and above average for Indiana. But this merely indicates that inadequacy is wide-spread. It does not prove that the school provides an academic experience comparable to the country's top private or public high schools. Nor does it even prove that Gary does the most it can with the resources available to a medium-sized industrial city...
...then there was a somewhat sophisticated, somewhat mid-western senior who faced a very distinguished professor with distinguished white hair, at his oral examination for honors in English. The professor peered intently at the young man, his voice resonant. "Young man," said he, "could you tell me what you believe to be the significance of the white whale in Moby Dick?" The young man seemed to ponder the question very earnestly and after a few moments he looked up at the professor and replied in a mid-western drawl, "Well, sir, it always struck me that it was just...