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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them are necessary to handle Generals well. A real core program where all concentrators would progress from one level of the next has many advantages; it provides a common background which the lecturer can assume, gives a common training, and insures that a student will not neglect a vital aspect of the field. But it also has disadvantages, the primary one being the difficulty of handling non-concentrators who have not had this core. Separate sections in a course might be a simple answer here. A more difficult problem is that of time. Ec. 1, 98, and 99 already constitute...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Economics: Undergraduate Program Undergoes Extensive Re-Evaluation | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

...Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan was in Helsinki for the signing of the new fiveyear, $1.5 billion trade pact. Terms: Finland will continue to send icebreakers and papermaking machinery to Russia, in return for Soviet wheat, coal, oil, autos. The Soviet-bloc share of Finnish trade will remain a vital 22%. Asked whether Russo-Finnish relations would be hurt if the Finns should join their British and Scandinavian trading partners in the proposed Western "Outer Seven" bloc, Mikoyan returned a wary answer. "That is a matter for the government of Finland," he said, "which will take steps, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: The Wary Neighbor | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...Past. Twenty-five years ago, the U.S. proudly ended a 19-year Marine occupation in Haiti; the return of the Marines is ironical but seemingly vital. Colonel Heinl (Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Korea), Yaleman ('37) and Marine historian, arrived last January with red mustache, pith helmet and fluent French to find the Haitian army in horrifying shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: The Marines Are Back | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Sardis was a vital area in the ancient world. The fame and grandeur of the city in ancient times was enormous. During the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., the Lydian empire grew, and, under King Croesus, reached its peak around 550. The source of the legendary wealth of Lydia was the enormous gold deposits (the present expedition hopes to discover their exact location). In 540, the Persians conquered the city and Croesus, the "millionaire-king" whose memory is still honored in the phrase "rich as Croesus", died...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Harvard Professor Directs Excavations To Unearth Important Relics at Sardis | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...death rate from heart and artery disease? Personality and behavior are emerging as increasingly .important. This week San Francisco's Dr. Meyer Friedman told the American Heart Association in Philadelphia of a link connecting an individual's behavior in a stressful occupation, through hormone channels, to the vital arteries that supply the heart. In the report, go-getters come off with a poor prognosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Go-Getters, Beware! | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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