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...Accepted reluctantly the resignation of Dr. Arthur F. Burns as chairman of his three-man Council of Economic Advisers. The new chairman: fellow CouncilMember Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier (pronounced Soh-Nyay), 48, like Burns a Columbia University economics professor and specialist at Washington's nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research before joining the council last year...
...Natural Philosophy was endowed in 1727, and under President Holyoke the curriculum was modernized and new texts introduced. Holyoke's most essential reform, however, was doing away with the old system of each tutor taking a class through all subjects in the curriculum. Instead, he made each tutor a specialist in charge of instruction in a given area...
Stevenson is a roorback specialist. The roorback hibernates during political off-years and roars back to life during national presidential campaigns. Ex-President Truman is a well-known breeder of roorbacks; occasionally they turn on him. His latest encounter with a roorback was well nigh fatal...
...Trevor Gardner, longtime Republican, guided-missiles specialist and onetime (1955-56) Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development, who quit his job in disgust with the slow pace of the missiles program, said he would "vote the straight Democratic ticket." ¶The Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, which endorsed Eisenhower-Nixon in 1952, polled the editors of its 19 papers for 1956 sentiments, got back a unanimous repeat endorsement...
...sixth game, back at Ebbets Field, Manager Walter Alston started his bullpen specialist, Clem Labine. Inning after scoreless inning, he matched the Yanks' bulky "Bullet Bob" Turley, an erratic speed merchant who seldom wins the way he ought to. Then, in the tenth, hefty Jackie Robinson briefly remembered the skill that once made him one of the roughest hitters in the league. He laced a rising liner over the head of aging Enos Slaughter in left field and drove in the only run of the game. It was a thin victory, but the Dodgers were still alive...