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...immediate project of the Committee, which is still in the planning stages, will be a drive to raise money for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta, chief coordinating unit of southern student action. SNCC is currently involved in a test program of voter registration in McComb, Miss., a rural area in the southern part of the state...
...Strategic Services during World War II, testified on behalf of Soblen at a hearing for a retrial. He contended that Soblen's alleged contacts in the OSS, Dr. Hans Hirschfeld and Horst Baerensprung, could not have had access to military secrets because they worked in the biographical records unit, which Hughes called the least secret part...
...achieved by making all proctors act as advisers.) With 15 freshmen per adviser, about 100 more students have their advisers living in the Yard. But that still leaves half the class with non-resident advisers; what has been done here is to provide offices in the dormitory units for the non-residents. Unfortunately, as yet only 15 of the 99 non-residents are using the unit offices. Unless some of the remaining advisers can be encouraged to follow suit--and this will be difficult as most already hold office hours elsewhere--there will have been little real improvement...
...other reform was the consolidation of the 15 freshman dorms into five units, each under a senior adviser and his staff of advisers. The old loose supervision of the two assistant deans is gone; in its place are five more closely knit bodies whose main function is advising. Where the whole freshman advising staff used to meet once at the beginning of the year, the unit staffs are now holding monthly meetings...
...important new indicators make their debut in the Commerce Department booklet. One is the "Index of Wage and Salary Cost per Unit of Output"-which is the ratio of total U.S. manufacturing wage payments to U.S. industrial production. (This index is a lagger, which tends to fall during the early stages of a business expansion, because productivity then increases faster than wages do.) The other key indicator, which tends to lead the economic curve, is the ratio of wholesale prices that manufacturers receive for their goods to the price that they pay for labor. (It tends to lead the economy...