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...honorary title of "General of the Armies of the United States." Only American so honored previously: John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I* With nothing to lose, throneless, jobless ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia told some London newsmen that his ex-realm's Marshal Tito will be tossed out of power by 1975 (when Tito will be an oustable 84). Said Peter, who is planning to make a U.S. lecture tour this fall: "He is having quite a lot of trouble now with his own boys (TIME...
...Farming" students out to French families is a farery from shacking them. Living in a French family provides precisely the "Intellectual facilities unavailable in Cambridge." It is in this realm that you over-look the educational character beyond the university circles of a junior year abroad. Students who procure for themselves hotel rooms or apartments in the hallowed Left Bank tradition isolate themselves from all but a few aspects of Parisian life. Social structure and tradition as well as economic conditions exist which render highly improbable that such students be admitted to the closed circles of French family life...
...realm of statistical matters in the last year, the President observed, the faculty elected 28 members to the rank of Professor and 12 to the rank of Associate Professor. Also, 3,148 degrees were granted in 1953-54 and the University's assets rose from $276,000,000 to $230 million...
This University's opportunity arose when D. Marcus Singer was similarly indicted for contempt. But, rather than break new ground in the realm of academic freedom, the University followed a pattern set in all but the extremely narrow-minded universities of the nation and relieved Dr. Singer of his teaching duties...
...demand more autonomy for the territories. In 1948 their leaders began to shuttle across the ocean for conferences at The Hague. But none demanded full independence; the territories were well satisfied with last week's statute that kept them an integral part of Queen Juliana's realm...