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...elsewhere. It is Harvard's inevitable response to the urgent national need for more and better physicians to keep pace with the growth of the population, to raise standards and to meet the formidable problems of health still challenging us at every turn. Another of its purposes is to strengthen Harvard's already unrivalled capacity to produce teachers of medicine. A quarter of all the full-time teachers of medicine of professorial rank in all the nation's 87 schools of medicine owe at least a part of their training to Harvard or to one or another of Harvard...
Year of Austerity. To strengthen his shaky position, Ben Bella is clearing the field of opposition-by persuasion where possible, force where necessary. He has banned all parties except his National Liberation Front (F.L.N.). Fortnight ago, he ousted extreme leftist leaders of the 300,000-member General Union of Algerian Workers because they were resisting his rapprochement with France, replaced them with trusted pro-government men. Though the problems of regionalism and marauding guerrillas still plague him, he has managed to win over most of the hostile tribal chieftains in the hinterlands to his side...
This summary of the activity of the academic year 1961-62 began with an account of the new Cambridge Electron Accelerator, symbol of a scientific age. The University's involvement in science, in research and in the upper reaches of graduate and professional education will grow and strengthen in the years ahead--strengthen, deepen and lead on to increasingly intense specialization...
Much has been done to strengthen "the environment of learning in the Houses. Enrollments in the humanities and the the social sciences in the College and in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have held their own. History, which at Harvard is classified with the social sciences, had the largest single enrollment last year; the social sciences with 44.6 per cent of the graduate students and 45.7 per cent of undergraduate concentrators have far the largest share of both graduate and undergraduate enrollment. And if it is true that there is now a great deal more outside support available...
...strengthen the precious little colony against the covetous desires of nearby Yemen, the British since 1959 have been linking neighboring sultanates and emirates in a new Federation of South Arabia. Aden was to join in March, but an outburst of riots sparked by pro-Yemen labor leaders and the emergence of an Egyptian-backed nationalist regime in Yemen itself persuaded Britain to speed things...