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Students who take the Medical College Admissions Test in May will learn their scores for the first time in the history of the test...
...Culver warned that students should not give too much weight to test scores in determining where to apply. Test scores are hard to evaluate even for medical schools, he said, and they will not tell a student much on his chances for success. The test, according to Culver, is not the most critical factor in deciding admissions. This is one reason why the deans did not think it important to release scores in the past, he said...
Other criteria which out-weigh test results include academic performance, both in quality of course and grades, range of interests, maturity and creativity, Culver said...
Scientists from the AEC, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and the Kennecott Copper Corp. have proposed a test (named Project Sloop* by the AEC) near Safford, Ariz. There, under a layer of volcanic rock more than 500 ft. thick, Kennecott test drillings have revealed a 2-billion-ton reserve of ore containing about 4/10 of 1% of copper...
...their hostility to Communism. Some, like Burnham and Meyer, had been Communists and understood the viciousness of the creed-nor have they forgotten or forgiven. If there has been a thaw in the Soviet Union, there is no way of telling from the Review. The publication denounces the nuclear test-ban treaty as a sellout to the Russians; Burnham writes a column on foreign affairs called "The Third World War"-the Review has no doubt that it has begun. Not long ago, Buckley urged the U.S. to bomb China's nuclear installations-once due warning had been given...