Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This figure equals the mark of the Class of 1960 for the first semester of its freshman year, and represents a considerable rise over the estimated 24 per cent of the Class of 1961 who made the Dean's List at this time last year. The average fall record for Dean's List of the last five freshman classes is about 28 per cent...
...Formidable Quartet. Though he comes from a long line of reformers (his father was a top British civil servant in India), Butler fell in with the family tradition quite unintentionally. His rise to power in the Conservative Party was dogged by the memory of 1939, when, at the age of 36, it was his duty to defend the Munich disaster in the House of Commons (the Foreign Secretary, Halifax, was in the House of Lords). The formidable quartet of Tories who opposed Munich-Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Lord Salisbury-never really made common cause with him. Prime Minister Churchill tucked...
...Steel output jumped to about 2,363,000 tons, up from 2,288,000 the week before. If the rise continues at this rate, the industry this week will bump against the alltime high of 2,525,000 tons, poured in the week of Dec. 17, 1956. Then the industry was operating under a strain at 102.6% of capacity. Now it is breezing along at 83.5% of 1959's greatly expanded capacity...
...Mistress (Japanese). The rise of a fallen woman is quietly, shrewdly observed by Director Shiro Toyoda in one of the best films to come out of Japan...
After a three year Ford Foundation study on the economics of higher education, Harris has recommended that the nation-wide student-faculty ratio be increased from the present 13:1 to 20:1. Such a rise would reduce the costs of higher education by $1.5 billion a year within 10 years, he said...