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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congressman Herter's most important achievement was helping to sell the U.S., especially skeptical Midwestern Republicans, on the Marshall Plan idea. In 1947 Herter proposed creation of a special Select Committee on Foreign Aid, became its chairman, shrewdly arranged that its 17 members should include a sprinkling of deep-dyed isolationists. Leading his committee on an allwork, no-play tour of war-ravaged Europe, he saw to it that his fellow Congressmen got an eye-opening look at the ugly realities of postwar Europe. Result: the Herter committee's reports came out so staunchly for aid to Europe...
...most practical tools are charts that show the price changes of individual stocks as well as the action of the market as a whole. Chartists are powers in the Street; on what their charts show, institutions, mutual funds and thousands of individual investors buy and sell. In this select group of experts, who can often send a stock zipping up-or down -the leading chartist is generally recognized to be Edmund W. Tabell, 55, the tall (6 ft. 2½ in.), mustached vice president and research director of Walston & Co. Tabell keeps 2,500 charts, biggest number on Wall Street...
Final plans for questioning procedure are still unsettled, but John S. Samuels 2L, vice-president, said last night that the Forum would probably select representatives of various student organizations to question the Premier. These students would speak into a microphone at the base of the Field House balcony...
Honors candidates in Biology have always taken four varied half-courses in addition to the six courses required of all concentrators in the Department. Under the new plan, students will select all of these additional courses within their particular area of specialization...
...primary responsibilities, he says, "related to the placing of agents behind the enemy lines, first in northern Italy and Austria and (later) in Western Germany." Although he himself did not enter enemy territory, it was his job to select men for the job and to brief them, "to prepare them for what they should learn and how they should protect themselves," he recalls. He would then arrange for communications...