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...longer and longer as he acquired new honors, pared it down to 24 lines. Former President Harry S. Truman (25 lines) argued that his middle initial should be followed by a period, even though the initial stood for nothing, but in the current issue the period was dropped anyway. Longest entry in the book: International Business Machine Board Chairman Thomas Watson (181 lines...
Under the ranking system, that majority member with the longest unbroken term of service on the committee becomes, automatically, the committee chairman. Admittedly, this system insures that the chairman, by his long experience, will be familiar with the committee's work. It also averts the log-rolling and politicking that might occur if chairmen were to be re-chosen in open session under every new Congress...
...permanent appointment at the age of thirty--the youngest man in the field of the Social Sciences to get one. Six years before he had obtained his first government job, one of a string which, by last year, had encompassed the War Labor Board, Wage Adjustment Board, and the longest tenure of any public member (20 months) on the Wage Stabilization Board, one of the most controversial and important of President Truman's Cold War economic panels. Dunlop has been officially out of the government since last March, when he received a letter from President Eisenhower informing...
...more hardy, Vermont offers a lot of snow and a lot of trails. Topping the list is Stowe (Mount Mansfield) which reports good to excellent skiing on 21 to 40 inches of base with five inches of backed power. Stowe has the longest chair lift in the East, in addition to a T-bar lift and a whole slew of rope tows, providing many excellent trails for novice to expert. Nearby, Mad River Glen, With its mile long lift, sports a mountain almost as big as Stowe's, but with waiting lines much shorter. Big Bromley and Pico Peak always...
Lamont stands today as a concrete and practical solution to one of the University's longest-standing bugaboos--the problem of making its vast collection of books more readily accesible to students. With the influx of veterans following World War II, this problem became appallingly clear: although the University has a larger number of books than any other organization in the country except the Library of Congress, it was harder for the student to get his hands on an assigned text than at many smaller and less well-equipped colleges...