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...exaggerating its importance or Anglo-American failure to follow through with a positive policy in the Middle East and elsewhere might snatch away the victory's fruits. What happened at U.N. last week was this: when the Security Council met to discuss Iran, Russia was still absent. But Andrei Gromyko had written that Russia would withdraw her troops from Iran by early May and that "other questions" like oil and Azerbaijan were "not connected" with the evacuation. Next day Byrnes moved to accept the Soviet reply, with Russia and Iran making a further report on May 6. The Council...
...William Scott Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, and the death of Roger Bigelow Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, the History Department will be further weakened by the loss of two of its best known figures. Avoiding new appointments until return of its absent members, it will attempt to pull through the interim period with the assistance of visiting lecturers, four of whom were announced earlier this week...
...Freshman or Sophomore in good standing but not on the Dean's List who is absent from his last college exercise before or his first college exercise after the April recess will be subject to disciplinary action...
...prophecy was off by 19 years, but the error was understandable. Blue-eyed, pixie-faced, sharp-bearded William Allan Neilson had wandered far and frequently since he first began to teach. His father was the village schoolmaster at Doune, in Perthshire, Scotland. One day, when his father was absent, ten-year-old William took over the class in the one-room schoolhouse. Three years later his father died, and William had to teach for a living. After graduating with honors from the University of Edinburgh, he taught at Upper Canada College in Toronto, Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Harvard...
When Boston underwriters Carver & Co. offered 102,000 shares of stock for sale in a new textile company, Ramie Mills of Florida Inc., the prospectus bore a familiar name, long absent from financial documents. President of Ramie Mills and now holder of 37,400 shares of stock is Richard Whitney, five times president of the New York Stock Exchange, who went to jail in 1938 for grand larceny...