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Applications for admission to the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1958 were more than double the figure for any previous year, Derwood W. Lockard, associate director of the Center, said yesterday...
...interest tonight will focus on gubernatorial races in the nation's two most populous states. In New York's battle of the millionaires, Governor W. Averell Harriman is fighting for his political life against personable, popular Nelson A. Rockefeller. Harriman was the overwhelming favorite when the campaign began, but his Republican opponent has made substantial gains in recent weeks and now appears to hold a slight edge...
...decade of high-gear progress was proudly reported last week by the American Heart Association as it celebrated the tenth anniversary of its reorganization from a narrow-based group of medical specialists to a broad-based outfit with national public participation. In this period, said President Robert W. Wilkins of Boston at the commemorative meetings in San Francisco, surgery on the heart itself has leaped from a hesitant, tentative approach to one of great confidence: there is now nobody with acquired or congenital heart disease who cannot be considered as a prospect for surgery, and many cases can be helped...
...hand-me-down structure built 50 years ago as a Methodist orphanage, later used as a graduate center for the University of Arkansas, now bought (by a wealthy Faubus backer, for $50,900) and relabeled: Senior High School-Little Rock Private School Corp. Newly titled School Superintendent W. C. Brashears (a former elementary school principal) announced a solid-sounding curriculum ("four years" of English, Arkansas and American history, applied mathematics, algebra, chemistry, physics, etc.), by week's end had registered 241 seniors and 498 juniors and sophomores. Only trouble: there were just barely enough teachers and classrooms to start...
...four speakers at a symposium sponsored by the Harvard Dramatic Club in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room were W. Elliot Norton '26 of the Boston Record, Lyon Phelps '46 of the Boston Herald, Henry Popkin of the Kenyon Review, and Gavin Scott '58-4 of the CRIMSON. Gaynor F. Bradish '52, instructor in English, moderated the panel...