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...last month, unable to find any good reason for serving out his six-year appointment, Joe O'Connell offered to resign. Washington heard that he couldn't see eye to eye with the White House on the proposed sale of American Overseas Airlines to Pan American World Airways. Last week Harry Truman sent him a brief, cool note of "best wishes" and accepted his resignation. Some thought that this was a hint that the President was ready to give Pan Am's merger the go-ahead...
...three years; 2) set up a bureau at Colombo, Ceylon, which will deploy technicians from Commonwealth countries wherever they are most needed in Southeast Asia and send youths from Southeast Asian countries to be trained in Commonwealth universities and industries; 3) invite all Southeast Asian countries to draw up six-year plans for industrial development, modernized agriculture, etc., for which the Commonwealth would consider further assistance this fall...
Decisions of the President and Fellows on important educational policy, on all appointments for more than a year, and on the awarding of degrees also need the approval of a separate group, the 30-man Board of Overseers, before they are final. The Overseers--who at present include scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer '28, author John Mason Brown '23, and journalist John Cowles '21--are elected by the University alumni--five each year for six-year terms. In actual practice the Overseers at their monthly meetings almost invariably approve Corporation's decisions...
Lying in Company. The court's most astonishing decision of the day was the setting aside of the perjury conviction of deposed Labor Leader Harold R. Christoffel, who ran the costly Allis Chalmers strike in 1941. Christoffel had been given a two-to six-year prison sentence for falsely telling the House Education and Labor Committee that he was not a Communist. The Supreme Court, split 5 to 4, rescued Christoffel with a startling technicality: a quorum of the committee was not on hand when he told his lies; therefore, though he lied under oath, he had not lied...
Each One Teach One. The UNESCO majority, led by the U.S., got action on one point. They were determined not to re-elect Dr. Huxley to his $15,000-a-year job. To replace him for a six-year term they chose, by a vote of 30 to 3, 46-year-old Jaime Torres Bodet, Foreign Minister of Mexico. Energetic, curly-topped Torres Bodet, who speaks French, English and Spanish with equal ease, is a poet who published his first works 'at the age of 16, but is no idle dreamer...