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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holmes will also combine with Quincy in the use of art and photographic studies, she said, and in addition to forming several small chamber groups, the houses hope to set up a Quincy-Holmes chorus...
Last week, plagued by upsurging crime rates, the District of Columbia decided to imitate Neighbor Baltimore and set up a police-dog corps. As in Baltimore, the dogs will be male German shepherds, trained by expert handlers, and each dog will be assigned to a particular patrolman, working only with him. Eventually, said District Commissioner Robert E. McLaughlin, the police department hopes to have 80 or 100 dogs on duty in the nation's capital...
...Korea's Syngman Rhee, who argued that the repatriates should go to South Korea-but insisted that the Japanese government must first pay "compensation" for the Koreans' years of "forced labor" in Japan. Unmoved, the Japanese pushed ahead, and, with the cooperation of the International Red Cross, set up a repatriation scheme that included a big proviso. Japan's condition: before boarding ship, each would-be repatriate would be asked privately by Japanese and Red Cross officials, "Do you wish to change your mind?" Last week, at 3,655 ward offices throughout Japan, clerks stood ready...
...addition of two new professors to the staff has enabled the Department to expand its total program quite substantially. Besides adding new courses in archaeology and cunieform, "we have set up a whole new field in northwestern semitic dialects," Cross explained...
...second principal objective of SUPRAD, that of promoting greater efficiency in the use of time and space in the schools, is the goal of the "Newton Plan." It is thought that the whole classroom set-up of a school may be made much more flexible, thus permitting both lectures to large groups of students and small-group seminars...