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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...built in 1935 for heavy express service, may pull a few more trains, after all. Rail fans speculate that the railroad, which has excused its decision on account of "the heavy winter," may wait for a while because of its recent difficulty with the Budd RDC's, single-unit, diesel cars...
...picked by President Eisenhower for a $15,000-a-year seat on the three-man Federal Maritime Board, regulator of merchant shipping routes and subsidies. He succeeds Joseph G. Minetti, who was appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board. The first Government career man ever to serve on the maritime unit, Stakem worked his way through college and law school in Washington, D.C. as a $900-a-year clerk in the U.S. Patent Office. He joined the FBI in 1934, quit nine years later to head investigations of skulduggery in World War II shipbuilding and postwar surplus-ship sales...
...Director of the Fogg Museum--a key unit in the proposed Visual Arts Center--yesterday criticized the recent Visual Arts Committee recommendations for a reorganization of the art facilities of the University...
Only seven sophomores qualified physically for the advanced training, and all have left the unit. "We are ready to accept return transfers," Elliot asserted, "but probably not until next fall. They will of course receive credit for the term if they were in Army ROTC...
Jones had worked out a plan previous to yesterday's announcement whereby sophomores would be able to complete the program in three years, before the unit would have been dropped...