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...Fund's most important achievements was made through its most atypical action. In 1946, Thomas W. Lamont '92 gave the College $1,500,000 for the construction of a new library to supplement the inadequate Widener undergraduate facilities. With costs rising after the war, this sum was not nearly enough, and the Harvard Fund was asked if it would devote its next few drives to matching Lamont's figure...
GUARANTEED ANNUAL WAGE will go into effect for 1,000,000 United Automobile Workers on June 1 as scheduled, now that nine states have okayed the plans to supplement state unemployment benefits. Workers can collect in Michigan, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida and California, but not in Ohio, which ruled the plan illegal...
Orcutt added that the machine will supplement the Mark IV computer, presently being used at the University, since the "704" will be capable of far more extensive calculations than its predecessor...
Since automatic promotion is pretty much the rule, many classes are divided into fast and slow groups. The bright use the same primers as the slow, but they are encouraged to supplement their reading with other books. At the third grade, says Assistant Superintendent William Kottmeyer of St. Louis, comes "the great divide." After that, the slow and the bright get the same texts in arithmetic, geography and history. Unless a school system has a most elaborate remedial reading program, the whole class could well be held to the pace of the slow...
...critics are ready to believe Russian explanations that they really want only hard-core members. Sometimes the fear of becoming complacent leads critics to refuse to face the facts, if those facts appear unfavorable to the Communists. Last week the anti-Communist New Leader magazine issued a special supplement, Communism's Postwar Decade, compiled by Russian-born Simon Wolin, a specialist on Soviet affairs for Radio Liberation...