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Unfortunately, one of the most welcome implications that can be drawn from the Class of 1958 Plans Report is also one of the most indefinite, and will have to be confirmed by future Reports. On the basis of a one year period there seems to be significant trend toward graduate study of arts and sciences, which officials at the University have interpreted to mean that Harvard College is, as they would wish it to be, producing a larger number of college instructors. The fact is that last year saw an increase of 6 per cent in the number of seniors...
With the Freshman team's 14-3 win over undefeated Yae and their overall league record for the season, the veterans on the varsity look forward to a lot of help from sophomore's next year. Keohane is encouraged by the trend toward depth evidenced in this year's sophomore and freshman teams. In previous years, Harvard teams have been propelled by three or four stand-outs, whereas now, Keohane points out, the team is strong on all three squads
...price they pay for our manufactures. "Chile, Peru, Mexico and Bolivia have seen the export prices of their metals drop from 40% to 50% during the last several years," said Grace, while the average price of U.S. exports to Latin America has risen 11%. ¶ "A positive attitude toward Latin America based upon permanent friendship and not upon 'crash' programs when we get into trouble abroad...
...counsel and advice." Although Senator Harry Byrd, the creator of massive resistance and the commonwealth's political boss, publicly proclaimed that he would continue to fight on the old grounds, there was little doubt that the news on the editorial pages heralded a strategic retreat in Richmond toward token compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decrees. The import was not lost on the segregationists who sent News Leader Editor Kilpatrick, the most articulate spokesman for the diehard segregationists, a bitter, one-sentence telegram: "Et tn, Brute...
...help them decide what type of man should be chosen to venture into space and how he should be trained, U.S. Air Force researchers turned to people who have been living for centuries at a way station toward space: the Indians of the High Andes. In San Antonio last week, Physiologist Robert T. Clark reported to the Second International Symposium on the Physics and Medicine of the Atmosphere and Space (see SCIENCE) that a valuable lesson has been learned from the Indians at Morococha (pop. 8,500), a mining town in Peru's central Andean highlands...