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...been carefully selected, is guided and advised, not compelled, by an assigned tutor. His degree is not awarded until he has proved his right to be recognized as having a college* education by taking comprehensive examinations which are largely non-factual in character. This measures the student's present proficiency and not his past success in cramming for numerous quizzes. Oxford has succeeded in encouraging both independence of mind and maturity of judgment...
...correspondents still on duty there rate these Eastern European countries according to the difficulty of getting re-entry visas. At present the rating is as follows: Albania, impossible; Rumania, impossible; Bulgaria, almost impossible; Hungary, very difficult and getting more so; Czechoslovakia, growing more difficult all the time; Yugoslavia, easier by comparison, but not always easy...
...make things nicer for farmer and consumer, and that meant everybody. But how much would it cost and who would pay for it? Charlie Brannan wasn't able to say offhand what the cost would be; he thought it would be no more than the cost of the present price-support program (an estimated $860 million this fiscal year, an unpredictable part of which may be recouped in later years by the Government in sales of stored surpluses). But for those who liked their arithmetic plain, the answer seemed too familiar. It looked as if the rabbit might save...
Wondrous Pill. Implicit in the Administration plan was an admission that the Government's present parity program was getting out of hand. It used to be a way of guaranteeing the farmer the purchasing power he had during the good years 1910-14; it was a lot more generous than that now, and infinitely more complicated. The Administration proposed to continue buying storable crops like wheat, corn and tobacco, to keep their prices up. But for perishables, such as meat, poultry, milk, vegetables-75% of the yearly farm output-the Government had something new to offer. It would...
...present production is under a new producer and director, Guthric McClintic, and we have him to thank for many of the improvements. The part of Jason, played by Henry Brandon is better handled, though still undefined. The chorus of three Corinthian women has happily not been recruited from the ranks of the subway money-changers, as seemed to be the case in the earlier production. Gone is their folksy quality perhaps, but the dialogue has benefited. On the debit side, there are two actors playing Creon and Aegeus who either have dental difficulties or misapplied crepe beards. Much of what...