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...resignation, in effect, put the seal of completion on one more term of office, the longest spell (34 months) that Iraq's durable strongman had ever stayed in the Premier's post. Even if he relinquished office, Nuri would still be the dominant figure in Iraq. But he knew that Iraq's boy king, Feisal II, would ask him to try again, and Nuri would have a chance to form a new government, with a widened Cabinet. In office or out, the adroit, 68-year-old Nuri is the senior Arab statesman of the Middle East...
...basic aims have not changed much since 1943, but they seem all the more vital today in a post-war America that seems content with Herman Wouk or Anne Morrow Lindbergh as culture, or will sit by quietly as it is told that nuclear radiation is a) dangerous, b) harmless, c) over its head, or d) none of its business...
...athletic field went to John A. Simourian '57; the Wister Prize to Robert S. Freeman '57 as the senior concentrator with the highest scholastic record in the Music Department; and the Eric Firth Prize to Tatsuo Arima '57 for a thesis entitled, "Uchimura Kanzo: A Case Study of the post-Meiji Japanese Intelligentsia...
...generation of students which came to college in the 1950's has been called "silent," perhaps with some justification. But if it was silent, it was also serious, and nowhere was seriousness more evident than in post-war attitudes toward education...
...itself was doubtless the primary reason that the student of the 50's could not return to raccoon-coated stereotypes. But there are other factors which make the post-war student different--increasing academic pressure caused by rising applications; the difficulty of securing admission to graduate schools; and the competitive bidding carried on by science and industry for top graduates. These are only the more obvious forces which compelled students toward a more serious concern with academic life, although it might be argued that the concern was more pre-professional in nature than academic...