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...President last week sent to Congress the smallest request for foreign aid-a little more than $3.1 billion-that any Administration has submitted in the 20 years since the adoption of the Marshall Plan. Johnson's message reflected his special regard for programs in education, health and agriculture, raising the total outlay in these areas 25% over last year. Of the $2.5 billion asked in economic aid, Latin America would get $624 million, the Near East and the Indian subcontinent $758 million, Africa $195 million, East Asia $812 million-with $650 million of the East Asian allotment for South...
This is a year for the little man in Harvard sports. Bobby Leo, Vic Gatto, and Tom Choquette formed one of the smallest Ivy backfields last Fall; the basketball team is falling back on its guards for support; and almost every other sport has less-than-huge athletes leading...
...their race with ruin, the new bosses of American Motors Corp. last week decided to rev up their smallest and-nowadays-least popular car: the compact Rambler American. "Between the small imports and the nearest U.S.-built models, no American car is reaching out to the consumer," said Roy D. Chapin Jr., who became A.M.C. chairman only four weeks ago. "The Rambler is going to be driven right into the center of this...
Improbable Pioneer. As the smallest (5 ft. 7 in.), most reticent of the seven original astronauts chosen in 1959, Gus Grissom seemed an improbable space pioneer. Yet he was one of the most talented and experienced of some 50 spacemen the U.S. has trained to date. Rejected by the Air Corps during World War II because he was under age, Grissom applied again when he turned 18, spent his wartime service as an aviation cadet. After his discharge, he got a mechanical-engineering degree at Purdue before rejoining the Air Force in 1950 to stay. He flew 100 combat missions...
...Harvard School of Dental Medicine was the first university dental school established in America. It will be 100 years old next year. Though it is the smallest dental school in the country, it is by no means the least influential. Its program was drastically revised in 1941 to enable it to place greater emphasis on research and on the thorough grounding of its students in both medicine and dentistry. After a quarter of a century there can now be no question about the wisdom of the change, for during the intervening years the School has made an outstanding record...