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Havard and Radcliffe students will make up about one-fourth of the student body, if preliminary estimates prove accurate. The majority of students will come from other eastern colleges, according to Thomas E. Crooks '49, director of the Summer School, and the Ivy colleges and the Seven Sisters will have particularly strong representation...
...that Communism ruled one-third of the earth's people and controlled one-fourth of the earth's land surface. Beyond the Iron and Bamboo Curtains were 6,000,000 Communists, more or less loyal to Soviet Russia. How badly that image has been shattered was illustrated by the very birthday greeters who came-or failed to come -to Moscow. Khrushchev apparently wanted to prepare a full-dress Communist summit meeting to condemn China. Instead of simply calling such a meeting and dictating the resolutions, Khrushchev had to plead and argue with foreign parties, including those from...
...foreign wars to fight, the Colombian government decided to put the air force to work by setting up Satena (for "Service to the National Territories"). The Colombian air force contributed the planes and the pilots, but Satena's other expenses had to be met from revenues. Charging one-fourth the fares of commercial lines, it still manages to stay in the black. Now Satena has eleven cargo planes making 35 trips a week over jungles and mountains to 52 communities-wherever it is needed and where no commercial airlines...
...mentions the name Wagner to a bartender, all he is likely to get is a growl. But if a citizen of the French city of Dijon mentions the name of his mayor to a waiter in a bistro, he gets an aperitif made of three-fourths dry white wine, one-fourth Crème de Cassis. The kir is Dijon's tribute to the Rev. Félix Kir, the improbable Roman Catholic priest who is mayor of this city...
Texas industries produce half the nation's supply of synthetic rubber, one-third of its oil, one-fourth of its rice, up to 20% of the world's cotton. Its natural-gas pipelines serve half the U.S. Texas has some 10 million people, ranks fifth among the states in population. It has an equal number of cattle-more than any other state...