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...spring look in style, if New York designers have their way, will be dominated by dresses that show lots of leg, arm and neck. That is what emerged from the closet at the semi-annual fashion showing of the New York Couture Group this week in Manhattan, where 51 leading designers showed off their spring styles to 250 fashion editors-and invited them to play the game of guessing which ones will catch on with U.S. women...
Where this happy medium will be found is most likely in the realm of education and training of semi-skilled personnel. The developing nations are aiming above all at self-sufficiency, and they prefer aid programs that will train natives to do jobs to those that bring in foreigners to handle every phase of an operation. American college graduates are capable of instructing native workers in certain simple skills, and can also teach English, mathematics and the sciences in the secondary schools (the great source of semi-skilled manpower). Graduates of agricultural or engineering schools can be particularly useful...
Playing a scrappy Rhode Island team in the semi-finals, the Crimson raced to a 33-26 lead at halftime and maintained most of its margin until about four minutes remained. Rhode Island, which eventually lost to Maine in the finals, then took the lead for the first time and held on for a 60-57 victory. Borchard tailed 12 points, Bowditch and Deering 10 each...
...news that buzzed through Washington last week marked another awesome milestone in the onrush of the atomic age. The confirmed facts: in the drab wastes of the Negev desert, tiny, semi-industrialized Israel, with the help of France, is building a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor with the capacity to produce plutonium, a key ingredient for both a fission and hydrogen bomb. By 1964, estimated some U.S. atom experts, Israel could in theory set off a killingly effective atomic blast...
...State Department is upset because of the proliferation of U.S. groups--governments land private--working in foreign aid and would like to coordinate all efforts perhaps under a semi-autonomous agency within the department...