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President Conant has already announced that the College is planning a survey to determine the affect of the R.O.T.C. on the undergraduate's choice of concentration and his work in that field. The large amount of time a cadet spends in the Corps, four or five hours a week for four years, and the astounding increase in the size of the units, motivated the survey...
...heaviest engagements last week were fought in the two conference tents at Panmunjom. Bitter argument continued on the emotion-charged issue of the prisoners (see below); but, however that was settled, it would not affect the shape of the peace. The shape of things to come lurked in the other tent, where U.N.-Communist negotiators were still trying to come to terms on means of safeguarding an armistice...
...kingdom was run, became Chief Minister of the realm. In a few months he had the whole world hanging on his words and deeds, his jokes, his tears, his tantrums. Behind his grotesque antics lay great issues of peace or war, progress or decline, which would affect many lands far beyond his mountains...
...installment curbs, then boldly touched off the financial fight of the year; it challenged the cheap-money policy of the Fair Deal and Treasury Secretary John Snyder. In the showdown, it forced Snyder to retreat from his cheap-money policy and let the interest rates on Government bonds-which affect all other interest rates-start slowly upwards, thus tightening the money and credit supply and choking off spending.While spending dropped, manufacturers poured out goods as fast as ever (in the first half of the year, for example, the auto industry made as many cars as in the first half...
Television of games this year was controlled by the NCAA. The important question now is whether or not the televising of football games really did affect attendance. Writers and radiomen's opinions on this question vary greatly; about half believe that the controlled plan helped while the other half thought that it didn...