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Initial discussion by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday seemed to indicate tacit faculty support of the Educational Policy Committee's advanced standing report. The group took no votes upon provisions in the plan, but decisively defeated two amendments...
DUTCH businessmen, taking a cue from Britain's trawler dealings with Russia (TIME, Dec. 7), are planning a private mission to regain some of their former trade with China. Exporters, who anticipate tacit government consent, say they will ship no strategic goods, hope to do business in textiles, industrial machines and railroad equipment...
...question of international atomic control has always been up to the Russians. At no time from the end of World War II to the present, would the West have rejected a reasonable proposal. Indeed, there has been a tacit standing offer during that entire period. Had the Russians any real desire to develop the atom on a peaceful basis in cooperation with the West, they might have made an offer long...
Most other Hall of Fame shows have been biographical playlets with upbeat endings, perfectly tailored to the TV market. Director McCleery does these standard items cheerfully, because he has worked out a tacit agreement with his sponsor, Hallmark Cards: "If I do four or five popular hits, then they'll let me do a serious show." Among his other serious shows to date: the trial of Socrates and a rather flat version of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid ("It laid an egg, but in ten years my sponsors will be proud they were among the first to produce...
...next ten years. The SEC, which usually opposes, in principle, such provisions to freeze current high-interest rates into an issue for long periods, let the clause stand, only because it thought Arkansas Louisiana probably could not have got the money without it. But the clause was a tacit admission by the lenders that they believed money would become cheaper...