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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighteen months ago, before squaring off against world illiteracy on a broad scale, U.N.'s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decided to try a small-scale test of its methods in Haiti's remote Marbial Valley, where illiteracy was the rule. To the valley six months ago went a team of UNESCO educators to begin the experiment. Last week, Lake Success announced that the project was being suspended. The UNESCO officials, said U.N., had come down with something almost as common in the Marbial Valley as illiteracy: malaria...
...newly-formed Freshman Athletic Council hopes to match the winning dorm team with Yale's top unit here the weekend of the Yale game. A full scale basketball program is currently being mapped out for this winter...
...state legislature in January, the medical school will be expanded to graduate 100 doctors a year, instead of the present 80. Next, individual communities will set up the graduates in practice at a cost of some $15,000, which the doctors will pay back in installments. Lastly, a full-scale postgraduate program for practicing physicians will be launched: this year the medical school faculty will conduct a series of lectures in different parts of the state. The lectures will eventually be supplemented by thorough refresher courses at the university. The general practitioners will be encouraged to attend them every three...
...Never Out of Breath." Britons in all walks of life learned to trust Temple for the same reason that church leaders of many creeds and countries did: everyone could be sure that whatever he proposed was based on carefully pondered Christian principle. He worked, preached and traveled on a scale that resembled John Wesley. The steady flow of his public meetings and services, of his private counsel and consolation, never let up. "It was all very breathless," said a colleague, "but he was never out of breath...
...Cadet's annual pay comes to $973 per annum, out of which sum he must provide all his expenses including books and the 16 different uniforms required. In the words of Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, Superintendent of the Academy, "This stipend being probably the lowest wage scale in the United States, the Cadet must exercise the utmost frugality to keep a balanced budget...