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...students now concentrating in some phase of Greek or Latin represent a 75 per cent increase over the post-war number. While new interest in Latin has not been as noticeable as in Greek, there is increased interest in both languages. Havelock said the Department's encouraging dual concentration with subjects like French or English has played a large part in the increase...
...seek direct talks with the Soviet Union. Assuming that the Russians are still as sincerely interested in reducing the threat of annihilation as they appeared last spring, there is a good chance that some preliminary disarmament steps can be arranged in such meetings. The history of wartime and early post-war negotiations points clearly to the effectiveness of bilateral decision-making. Obviously, the mistakes of Yalta will not be repeated...
Herter, a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council, claimed that Russia's obvious superiority in missile developments is due to the fact that the Democrats did "absolutely nothing" on the missile program during the post-war years 1947-1953. The Russians, on the other hand, were involved in an intensive missile program by 1947, Herter told the Harvard Eisenhower Club...
...freshman class is 50%. Taken out of context, the statistic that there are nearly 4% fewer public school graduates in the freshman class than there were three years ago is significant, but not alarming. But the figure takes on additional significance when it is realized that it reverses a post-war trend that was expected to continue. The new trend shows every sign of continuing unless the Board of Admissions makes a conscious attempt to regulate admissions from public and private schools...
...meeting between the President and the Prime Minister in Washington last week may well prove to be one of the most historic events in the post-War history of the Western alliance. The summit meeting and the terse communiques that emerged from it take on their potential significance because the agreements reached--on the substantive issues of pooling scientific research and strengthening NATO's policy making functions--could represent a total revision in Western patterns of response to Soviet challenges...