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Vera Micheles Dean, authoress and research director of the Foreign Policy Association, New York, led the panel of speakers at Saturday evening's symposium in Agassiz on "1950-A Backward Glance and a Forward Look." Miss Dean spoke of her experiences in the field of foreign relations, its ever increasing importance, and its growing tensions. Four other fields in which women of the Class of 1925 have worked were represented by Mrs. Frank H. Brown, department store work; Mrs. Meredith B. Givens, government; Miss Sybil A. Stone, psychology; and Mrs. Kan Lee, teaching (in China...
...points: 1) periodic Security Council meetings on a foreign-minister level, 2) atomic control, 3) disarmament, 4) a U.N. police force, 5) acceptance of all 14 nations* now awaiting admission to U.N., 6) technical aid for backward countries, 7) greater use of U.N.'s specialized agencies, 8) vigorous pressing of the U.N. program for human rights, 9) advancement of dependent peoples, 10) further development of international...
...floor, he really threw her; Jeritza had insisted on realism. Once on the floor, she sang the famous aria "Vissi d'arte" lying prone as usual.* When Scarpia lifted her to her feet, she pushed him away so hard that the sofa he fell into almost went over backward. In the third act, weeping over the dead Cavaradossi, she managed real tears...
...Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil Co. of N.J. (March 24, 1947), which explained the corporation's $300 million expansion into Middle Eastern oil as an attempt not only to make money but at the same time to convey the "tangible benefits of free enter prise" to a backward land. Almost two years later the U.S.'s Point Four plan for world recovery was launched to encourage just such tangible benefits as this...
Tucked in with EGA, the President's Point Four program, to give technical aid to backward areas and encourage U.S. private investments abroad, squeaked through (37-36) to become duly authorized for the first time by Congress. The Senate voted the $45 million Harry Truman asked for; since the House authorized only $25 million, the difference will have to be fought out in conference...