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...Army ROTC never needs an excuse to consider revisions. But within and without the unit there are always enough complaints to unnerve the most hardened militarist. Colonel Dupuy's recent proposals, smoothed out by a subcommittee of the Committee on Educational Policy, approach the old ROTC problem from a fresh angle, however. In recent years, Shannon Hall has been trying unsuccessfully to take the middle ground between intellectual and practical instruction in the classroom. But because there are certain basic principles of soldiering which are less than stimulating intellectually, yet must be mastered, the level of ROTC classes has dropped...
Though specialized instruction would be limited to summer camp, the committee suggests that the Harvard unit re- tain its identification with the Artillery. There were two reasons for this decision: the Committee agreed with President Lowell, who said when the College instituted the ROTC that Harvard should be connected with a combat branch. Also there is no sign that artillery men will not be necessary for a long time to come. Since all the specialization would be included in the second six weeks period of summer camp, however, the program would be much like the "Branch General" programs in which...
...labor conferences on the experiment and that they would fire no workers as a result of increased productivity. These were not simply concessions to union fears. Productivity, as MSA preached it in the experimental plants, is a dynamic concept which holds that by increasing efficiency a manufacturer can cut unit costs and thereby expand sales and thereby create jobs for more workers...
TIME Correspondent John Mecklin flew with a French air-force unit one night last week as it dropped paratroop reinforcements into besieged Dienbienphu. His report...
Elephant Walk (Paramount), though hardly a work of art, is an astonishingly neat feat of manufacture. It was begun in Ceylon during February of last year, and the film unit was flown back to Hollywood to do some final "spotting." In mid-March, before work could be finished, Star Vivien Leigh had a serious nervous breakdown and could not complete the picture...