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...Fernandes, Brazil's 69-year-old Foreign Minister, the meeting will be something of a personal triumph. It will give him opportunity to push his, and Brazil's, two-fold policy: Pan-Americanism and friendship with the U.S. As Brazil's chief delegate, he will wield great, if not always apparent, power...
...Crimson invading forces will be the six men who carried Adams House to its decisive victory in the "A" League intramural squash tournament. Branford College's strong squash squad will be pitted against Al Alpern, Ned Bothfield, Stan Friedman, John Rogers, Breck Marshall, and Corny Smith, who will wield their rackets against heavy odds...
...structure. The Texas plan demanded that all presently organized groups be barred: spokesmen from organizations as widely separately as the AVD and the parochial Newman Clubs of America asked inclusion as voting delegates. The resulting compromise called for the creation of a council of the 19 organizations which would wield 10% of the executive committee's voting strength through three joint delegates working side by side with the campus-electees...
Arthur Vandenberg would be missed. By supporting Secretary Byrnes in his policy of "patience as well as firmness" with the Russians, he had kept U.S. foreign policy on a high bi-partisan plane. But in the future, as chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, he might wield even more influence and speak with greater authority...
...intervention of other, more immediate problems forced out the tutorial question, perhaps faculty or student indolence is the answer. Whatever the causes, one of the most important educational considerations in the recent history of Harvard College has been allowed to slip out of sight during a period which may wield a significant influence on the College's academic future...