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...announcement, coming the same week that Juin assumed command of NATO's European land forces, set SHAPE'S protocol officers to biting their nails. With his marshal's baton and seven-starred, oak-and laurel-leaf-encrusted kept Juin will outrank his new boss, four-star General Ridgway (who is also outranked by another subordinate, Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery). Probable solution: a fifth star for Ridgway...
...loan which Cousin Andrew Mellon had made on some Texas oil leases. He salvaged the money so well that when he retired at 80 his empire (still 41% owned by the Mellon family) stretched from Venezuela, where only Standard's (NJ.) Creole and Royal Dutch Shell outrank Gulf's Mene Grande, to Kuwait on the Persian Gulf, where Gulf and Britain's Anglo-Iranian share more than 11 billion bbls. of oil reserves. Under him, Gulf got the prospecting rights to all of Denmark, and his global marketing and producing apparatus embraced subsidiaries through most of Europe...
Private boarding schools, despite their social amenities and allegedly tougher curricula, take a scholastic back seat to high schools. Research made public this week by a Grant Study anthropologist reveals that College students with a high school background consistently outrank their private school counterparts...
Also shown by the report were large increases in the popularity of romance language offerings, and corresponding decreases in classics fields. Latin Ba, with 37, is the largest classics subject, while romance language courses French Ca, with 145, and Spanish 1a with 102, far outrank...
...that you will remember for many years, Margaret Webster's production of "The Tempest" achieves magnificent effects of gravity and spectacle. Shakespeare's great comedy offers controversial problems in staging and interpretation; the current effort has successfully surmounted them with polish and understanding, for a result that will probably outrank "Othello" in popular appeal...