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Congressman Herter's most important achievement was helping to sell the U.S., especially skeptical Midwestern Republicans, on the Marshall Plan idea. In 1947 Herter proposed creation of a special Select Committee on Foreign Aid, became its chairman, shrewdly arranged that its 17 members should include a sprinkling of deep-dyed isolationists. Leading his committee on an allwork, no-play tour of war-ravaged Europe, he saw to it that his fellow Congressmen got an eye-opening look at the ugly realities of postwar Europe. Result: the Herter committee's reports came out so staunchly for aid to Europe...
Final plans for questioning procedure are still unsettled, but John S. Samuels 2L, vice-president, said last night that the Forum would probably select representatives of various student organizations to question the Premier. These students would speak into a microphone at the base of the Field House balcony...
Honors candidates in Biology have always taken four varied half-courses in addition to the six courses required of all concentrators in the Department. Under the new plan, students will select all of these additional courses within their particular area of specialization...
Approved by the Council were recommendations that the HSA pay its managers a salary instead of requiring them to head agencies, distribute the burden of its expenses better, improve its public relations and publicity, and select its managers as far as possible on the basis of finanical need...
...primary responsibilities, he says, "related to the placing of agents behind the enemy lines, first in northern Italy and Austria and (later) in Western Germany." Although he himself did not enter enemy territory, it was his job to select men for the job and to brief them, "to prepare them for what they should learn and how they should protect themselves," he recalls. He would then arrange for communications...