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...History Department, with 15 conference courses offered this year, serves the largest graduate body of the three departments. Less than one-tenth of the enrollment in conference groups is undergraduate. This is barely 2 per cent of all undergraduate history concentrators. Since there is less turn-over in the middle-group courses, and less chance that a period will not be covered, the History Department keeps its "200" courses literally, as the register announces, "primarily for graduates." There is also less undergraduate demand in this department for seminar work. Myron P. Gilmore, departmental chairman, has suggested that the history faculty...
...post, Indiana-born, University of Chicago-and Harvard-educated Dan Rich will have less than one-tenth the staff (33 v. 350) but three times as much leisure. Worcester's jewel-box museum, the best of its size in the country, with a choice selection of objects and paintings ranging from a 3,000 B.C. Sumerian stone figure to Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso, will give Rich professional pride and satisfaction, plus the chance to work more closely with the community. He will be free to do his own research and "some polemic writing," notably on the need...
Though money spent by Russia since World War II on loans, aid and technical assistance (including massive aid to Red China and the satellites) is only one-tenth of the U.S. effort, the Soviets make the ruble go many times farther than the U.S. dollar. While the U.S. program has benefited almost every non-Communist country, Russia has concentrated 95% of its aid in key countries it hopes to win. In Egypt, Syria, India, Afghanistan, Indonesia and Yugoslavia, the total Soviet program during the last 2½ years has been double the free world's. The U.S. grants...
Last week a Federal Reserve study of consumer finances showed that "while many consumers were pessimistic about business conditions, very few expected their own incomes to decline. Nearly three-quarters expected to be making as much or more at the beginning of next year; only one-tenth expected their rate of earnings to decline." Though consumers in 1958 plan to buy fewer houses, heavy appliances and new cars, the survey noted, they will spend more on used cars, furniture and home modernization. Retail sales for the year are 2% ahead of 1957, with a fat 7% increase in department-store...
Florabelle bared her tooth and cackled up at him: "Lord, Sugar," she said, "it ain't none of that. It's that I'm one-tenth Negro...