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Economics tutorial can gain a boost from its program of junior oral examinations. Government, English, and Social Relations need this boost just as badly. Tutors in these fields might well consider the Economics plan as a practical, effective way to achieve both increased interest and improved tutorial performance...
President Pusey will attempt to boost the low Blood Drive total tomorrow as he becomes the first president to donate to the campaign...
...theory that man originated in Africa got a boost when a nearly complete lower jaw of Australopithecus prometheus was found at Makapansgat in the Transvaal this month. Anthropologists now have most of the skull parts (from different individuals) of a "proto-man" who probably lived one million years ago, along with saber-toothed tigers and giant hyenas. Professor Raymond A. Dart of Witwatersrand University gave Prometheus his name because some of his bones contained free carbon, which indicates that they had been burned, and hints at the use of fire...
...aquatic records: it weighed 2 Ibs. dry and 8 Ibs. wet. But because it kept its shape better than others and gave the bather more freedom, people swarmed to buy it. Jantzen soon abandoned its sweaters, socks, gloves and other woolens, concentrated on bathing suits. It got its biggest boost from its trademark, a diving girl clad in what was quite a daring outfit for those days: red bathing suit, red stockings, and a sort of tam-o'-shanter with a white nob on top. In three years, Jantzen distributed 10 million diving-girl stickers for windows and windshields...
SHORTAGE of titanium, the newest wonder metal for jet planes (TIME, June 15), is still so severe that Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott wants Congress to authorize a subsidy to the industry to help boost production immediately. Current production is only about 2,800 tons a year, and planned production of 25,000 tons by 1956 falls far short of needs. Talbott wants to subsidize the industry with Government-guaranteed loans, a rapid tax write-off, and Government contracts to buy all it can produce...