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Arriving in Venezuela on the first stop of his tour, Kissinger lost no time outlining a detailed American program for dealing with these issues. Addressing a symposium of diplomats, academics and businessmen in the seaside resort of Caraballeda, Kissinger promised U.S. action in six areas. These include greater U.S. aid through the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank, help in stabilizing commodity prices, and cooperation with the Latin American Economic System (SELA), a plan for regional economic cooperation founded last year...
...Harvard Graduate School of Education will sponsor a new symposium on post-secondary school education in the spring of 1976, it was announced yesterday...
...symposium, funded by a $10,000 gift from Herbert Askwith '07, is intended to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of new concepts in higher education...
Tuesday, Paul N. Ylvisaker, dean of the School of Education, said "The Askwith symposium enables the School of Education to look at the whole range of educational concerns facing our nation...
Mixed Results. With that kind of buildup, a letdown was almost inevitable. "Impossible expectations have been raised," Physiological Psychologist Neal Miller of Rockefeller University, a leader in feedback research, told a New York symposium last week. Indeed, actual gains have been modest. Researchers have helped some incontinent patients to gain control of their urination and defecation through biofeedback. Among other researchers, Dr. John Basmajian, a professor of anatomy and rehabilitation medicine at Emory University, reports success in eliminating foot drop - difficulty in raising the foot while walking - though efforts to extend the technique to cerebral palsy victims have failed...