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...whole and less about medical specialties, at least at the start. Med-school freshmen will begin with wide-ranging courses that relate basic medical disciplines. And as the students advance toward their doctorates, the proliferation of specialized courses will be cut down, allowing them to spend about one-fourth of their time in the sciences, humanities and other fields allied to their major study...
...past 15 months), offering to invest sums as small as 38?. With 400,000 buyers enrolled, British fund assets jumped 50% in the past year alone, to $336 million. Among newcomers to the capitalist class are thousands who still have no bank accounts. A poll of investors showed that one-fourth left school in the grammar grades. So radically has the British attitude toward buying shares in capitalism changed that even the Laborite Daily Herald in its financial column now urges mutual funds as a good place to put working-class savings. The Tories are delighted, well realizing the obstacles...
...additional $125 million a year from tourists, who will no longer buy their pesetas on the black market. The liberalizing of imports and the streamlining of the whole process of giving out import licenses should drastically cut down on the profession of smuggling, which now accounts for one-fourth of Spanish trade. Most important of all, membership in OEEC takes Spain out of limbo and into a Western Europe progressing healthily while Spain has been deteriorating economically...
...populous than that fabulous Empire welded together by the strong-willed ministers of her great-great-grandmother. Victoria. Born of a snug union of Britain and Dominions of European stock, it now has hundreds of millions of brown, black and yellow men. It covers one quarter of the earth's land mass, contains one-fourth of the world's people, and carries on within its confines one-third of the world's trade...
...does U.S. economic growth compare with that of the Soviet Union? Last week the National Bureau of Economic Research gave a qualified answer in its annual report: on a percentage basis, industrial output in Russia has risen more rapidly than in the U.S. since 1928, but only about one-fourth as rapidly as the Russians claim. Russia's growth statistics are peppered with gaps, probably omit some stagnant or declining industries, use highly doubtful totals. Most of Russia's gain has been the result of massive diversion of manpower to industry, a regimented movement roughly similar...