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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...English Department this year is offering one of the smallest selections of middle group courses in its recent history, a check of course catalogues has revealed. This fall the Department is giving one full course (English 115) and six half-courses in a field which has stracted approximately 720 concentrators from Harvard and Radcliffe...
This year's total of 13 half-units of middle-group English instruction compares unfavorably with the 19 half-units given in 1958-59 and 1959-60, and with the 21 offered...
EPIC, which last year co-ordinated picketing activities in the Boston area, has this year recommended picketing as only one of a series of alternatives for action by its member organizations. The EPIC group at BU has thus far concentrated on a successful battle to end discrimination in fraternities and sororities, while the Brandels organization is working on housing discrimination...
...Navy Charles Thomas resigned. In two years as TWA boss, Thomas revamped the ailing airline's management, slashed operating costs, turned a $1,764,000 deficit the year he took over into profits of $9,400,000 in 1959. When Hughes first went looking for loan money, a group of banks (headed by Manhattan's Irving Trust Co.) and insurance companies liked the looks of TWA under
Thomas. The group agreed to lend Hughes the money he needed provided there was no change in TWA's management. In characteristic Howard Hughes fashion, he and Thomas had a falling out, and Thomas quit two days before the deal was closed. The banks backed away and Hughes tried unsuccessfully to find the money elsewhere...