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...weeks the quarreling Laotian politicians had been unable to select a new Premier. Last week parliamentary leaders suddenly made up their minds. Picked as the youngest Premier in Laotian history was Tiao Somsanith, 47, who has a shining reputation for honesty and ability. As governor of the northern province of Houa Khong, Somsanith was one of the few Laotian leaders not involved in the diversion of U.S. foreign aid funds, looked after the non-Lao tribes committed to his care so solicitously that the pro-Communist Pathet Lao forces were unable to make any inroads in his territory. According...
...current show was hand-picked from the collections of 75 Yalemen (class of 1895 to the class of 1959) by the director of the Yale Art Gallery, Andrew Carnduff Ritchie. Refusing to select the works from photographs, Ritchie criss-crossed the U.S. to study each suggested entry, had no assistance in making his final choices. Says he: "One eye had to give unity to the show." Ritchie's eye was catholic: among the 150 oils, 68 water-colors and drawings, and 47 pieces of sculpture are works from 17 countries, ranging from the nightmarish quality of Francis Bacon...
...school students are accepted provisionally in the eleventh grade, confirmed as freshmen if they do well in the twelfth grade. He concedes one objection: it might only begin the multiple-application problem one year earlier. Yet the idea resembles the "early-decision" plan successfully but sparingly used by many select women's colleges. They pick superior eleventh-graders who aim at one particular college from the start; this year 25% of Wellesley's freshmen entered under the plan...
...Steichen, who is also director of the photography department at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which has been taking photographs seriously for nearly 30 years. The professionals claimed that they alone were qualified to judge their own work; the way to stage a proper show was to select the best photographers and let them submit their best. The magazine Modern Photography published a biting attack on the Metropolitan's exhibit under the title "The Day Photography Was Kicked in the Head...
...pilot training unit ostensibly under control of Lockheed-but most of Lockheed's top officials made it a point to know very little about it. Everything was turned over to Vice President Clarence L. ("Kelly") Johnson, who is in charge of Advanced Development Projects. The training unit recruited select U.S. pilots, and presumably they were drilled in the same rigorous survival training as Strategic Air Command pilots. Presumably they got long special training in high-altitude work...