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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides the great demand for scientists, government service offers many open positions to graduate. Accounting and business administration are two other pelds which rank high in job opportunities...
More serious was the corruption of rank & file party members. After seizing Shanghai, the Third Army command had paired off thousands of Yangtse village Communists with members of the city's Nationalist police force, the idea being that the cop would pick up some Communism and the Communist would learn to handle a city beat. As of last week, the party admitted, all the poorly paid Communists seemed to have learned was the cops' respect for the "material comforts of capitalism...
Said a French soldier: "Up there it is cold and everyone is tired. Voila! One sees Mile. Pepita. She is as cold and as tired as anyone else, but still smiling." Pepita's uniform, like her rank, is unique: she wears tailored, olive green slacks, a white blouse beneath a woolen khaki jacket and a cerise scarf. In her small tent, which was sieved by mortar fragments last October, there is a salvaged dressing table littered with a dozen perfumes, powders and toilet accessories. Hanging from the tent pole is a Paris wardrobe. "For Tokyo," she explains...
Concertgoers the world over have heard the Kurtz brothers-but rarely together. Conductor Efrem, 51, has always shied away from family favoritism in picking his soloists. Cellist Edmund, 43, a front-rank virtuoso, has always agreed, but he adds, "Brothers can come together occasionally to have a little musical outing." Up to last week, they had had only three such outings in 25 years: in Stuttgart, Berlin and Kansas City, Mo. Houston, where Efrem has led the symphony since 1948, was treated to the fourth...
Under Dean Louis M. Hacker, the new "School of General Studies" will have everything a campus should have-short of a football team. It will have its own faculty, its own Phi Beta Kappa elections; its degree will rank with those of both Barnard and Columbia College. Though not all students will try for a degree (which has taken as long as 18 years), all must work for credit, and all must earn passing grades...