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...handicap is a lack of good scripts. Last week's Brandenburg Gate dealt familiarly with the cold war in beleaguered Berlin, and the plot leaned heavily on devices borrowed from Carol Reed films and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. Jack Palance was effective as the present-day Sydney Carton who gives his life to free Maria Riva's husband from a Communist death cell...
...bust, 33.9 in.; waist, 26.4; hips, 37.4. As described by Anthropologist Harry Shapiro, Norma, following the general U.S. trend, has greater height, a heavier waistline and narrower hips than the women of previous generations. But, though taller than her grandmother was, Norma is still dwarfed by the present-day fashion ideal. Dr. Shapiro doubted that Norma would get much taller in the future, since the U.S. process of growth seems to be slowing down...
Early this Fall the report of the President's Committee on General Education was published. Divided into four main parts, it contains an analysis of what is wrong with the present-day Yale, a proposal for reorganization of the faculty, stressing less departmental power, and finally two distinct plans for course revision, particularly in the first two years...
Certain problems and failings of present-day Yale caused the report. Griswold and his committee saw Yale struggling against many problems; "enormous diversity in the background, motivation and previous training of the students. As Yale has become a national university," they wrote, "it has inevitably had to cope with an increasing range of standards of college preparation." At the same time according to the report, Yale has been faced with the necessity of teaching basic non-college work on one hand-remedial English, elementary languages, and elementary mathematics--and to include training programs like ROTC on the other. "Even...
...fell about 20%. Unemployment rose from 6,400,000 to 9.800,000. By the standards of those earlier years, what happened in 1949 was merely a statistical flutter. Unemployment rose some 60% in a few months to 3,400,000 (not even high enough to meet Nathan's present-day definition of recession). Prices declined only slightly, industrial output dropped a mere 8%, and stock prices, after a quick 10% dip, were higher (200.52) at the end of 1949 than they were...