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...every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, wrote Sir Isaac Newton in his third law of motion. He might also have been describing a political law for the Middle East. Last week, only days after Gamal Abdel Nasser had announced the union of Egypt and Syria in a new United Arab Republic, the Kings of Jordan and Iraq reacted by proclaiming a union of their two nations in a rival Arab Federation...
...giant public-power program. Now their position has changed. Even the stoutest private-power men feel that the program needs a strong infusion of Government aid because commercial nuclear power is so new, so complex and so costly that private companies cannot carry the burden alone. Says President Newton I. Steers Jr., of the Atomic Development Mutual Fund, Inc. (assets: $45 million), a onetime AEC official and longtime private-power advocate: "There isn't a reactor manufacturer in the U.S. who doesn't favor Government assistance to get them over the hump...
Jonathan Kozol '58 of Eliot House and Newton, Mass., will be awarded the Harvard Monthly Prize for 1957-58 as the student in the most advanced course in English composition who shows the greatest literary promise, Sargent Kennedy, Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced yesterday...
Died. Emmett Jay Scott, 84, distinguished Negro leader, longtime (18 years) secretary to Booker T. Washington, onetime (during World War I) special assistant to Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, secretary-treasurer of Howard University (1919-34), author of The American Negro in the World War (1919), coauthor (with Washington) of Tuskegee and Its People; in Washington...
Schools accepting invitations include: Belmont Hill, Lowell High, Milton Academy, Moses Brown, Newton High...