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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State for Latin American Affairs, his criticism presumably was aimed straight at Secretary Dean Acheson. The New York Times's comment was that perhaps Acheson was just too busy to take care of the job. The way out, suggested the Times, might be to give full cabinet rank to a special Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, to guide U.S. policy within the hemisphere...
...Office of Tests, set up in 1945 under the direction of Dyer, deals with many other types of tests. It processes the results of the College Boards and makes up a predicted rank list for applicants on the basis of the Board scores. It sets up the placement tests used in many fields and the general proficiency tests for all-incoming graduate students. It also scores all objective tests used in hour and final exams...
...first is the "general calibre" of the student, taken from the predicted rank list. Dyer points out that certain fields require more general ability than others. For example, students concentrating in Mathematics have an average predicted rank of Group III, while Government concentrating have an average Group IV ranking...
...last fourth of the novel (which piled melodrama on melodrama, with Aissa shooting Willems), and some of Conrad's tropical thunder reaches the screen only as a muted rumble. But by making much of his movie on location in Borneo and Ceylon, Director Reed has captured the rank, overwhelming atmosphere with which the story is saturated: the landscape of brown golds and brilliant emeralds, the oppressiveness of the jungle, the steaming sunshine, the murmuring river, the endless chattering and chanting of the natives...
Haynes breaks down the collection of erotica into several classifications. In the fiction division, three levels exist. On the first is the Lawrence novel, Miller's endeavors rank in the second class, while on the third level are the so-called "drug-store novels...