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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Your interesting list of 50 unknown but good colleges [Dec. 5] did not include the one that stood next to Kalamazoo which was mentioned as having 3.67% of its male graduates taking Ph.D.s in chemistry and biochemistry. We find that King College had 3.60% of its male graduates taking this degree. When an institution as poor as this one stands fourth in the nation in comparison with Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, Reed, Haverford, and Swarthmore, one is bound to call this an indication that our program is not wholly unsuccessful...
President-elect John Kennedy stood in the patio of his father's Palm Beach villa last week and announced the appointment of California Insuranceman J. Edward Day as his Postmaster General. "Having just mailed a letter from Washington to Boston and having it take eight days to get there, I am hopeful we can improve the postal service." said Kennedy. With this typically self-confident postscript, Jack Kennedy's selection of his Cabinet was complete...
...Bristol Britannia with the Cubana Airlines markings bobbed to a halt on the runway of Ottawa's Uplands Airport, and out stepped ten Cubans who had flown nonstop from Havana. At their head stood Regino Botí, Fidel Castro's U.S.-hating Minister of Economy. They had come to Canada, proclaimed Botí, with $150 million "to find out what we can purchase." His face abeam, Trade Minister George Hees told newsmen: "You can't do business with better businessmen anywhere...
There the matter stood simmering until September of this year, when Velasco Ibarra became Ecuador's President for the fourth (nonconsecutive) time, immediately announced that he wanted the tract. When the U.S. and its three peacemaking partners held firm, the mobs began to move...
...Christmas Exhibition," with prices ranging from $10 to $50 (on the installment plan). Last week, when her gallery - still dubbed the Downtown, although it has long since moved midtown -launched its 35th annual Christmas Exhibition with a price list from $35 to $1,000, a line of 30 people stood outside the door. "We keep our rich collectors away for this sale, or they'd come in and buy six paintings at a time," she says...