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...Administration will push for a five-year extension and some liberalization. The prospect is for a long, bitter fight, beginning in the House Ways and Means Committee (now chaired by Arkansas' Representative Wilbur Mills), continuing on the floor of both houses, probably ending in little more than a one-year extension of the present agreements...
...hearty for vegetarianism. With predictable indignation, labor leaders at last week's A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City pounced on President Richard James Gray of the 19-union Building and Construction Trades Department for making a proposal that he himself conceded was "most unorthodox." The proposal: a one-year voluntary wage freeze to keep prices from rising to the point where demand declines and sagging demand causes unemployment...
...Committee on Admissions has not always been limited to taking a mere handful of transfers. Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions, himself a transfer into Harvard, notes that "not too long ago, the one-year senior, the person who transfered to get a Harvard degree, was quite common." In the late 1940's the College took about 100 transfer students a year...
...Dated. In Montgomery, Ala., the Rotary Club withheld the one-year perfect-attendance award from Dr. Gordon King when he failed to show up at the award meeting...
Campaign Veteran. In London, a sympathetic British army court gave Gunner Bartholomew Meehan, 24, father of six, a light one-year sentence for six years of desertion after he told his story: in 1951 he was granted 14 days compassionate leave to visit his wife and their newborn baby; by the time he was ready to come back, she announced that she was expecting another child; the same thing happened in 1953, and again the next year, and the next, and the next; he finally surrendered to the military police this year upon learning that no child was expected...