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...said on good authority that the French will demand assurance that no more arms will be delivered to Tunisia by Britain and the United States and that they support France's policy of staying in Algeria, despite the three-year rebellion...
...laurel-hung veterans closed a chapter. In Hollywood, after only a year of a three-year NBC contract, Producer-Director Fred Coe announced that he was quitting the network. Said Coe, who developed such playwrights as Paddy Chayefsky and Horton Foote, and put on Television Playhouse, Producer's Showcase and Mr. Peepers: "Plans and ideas that I have submitted have either been ignored or have drawn no interest. On the other hand, I have been given no assignment. A silent telephone on your desk is a terrible thing." In Manhattan, after seven successful years in daily morning...
...last week Thorneycroft's austere measures (tightened credit, a ceiling on investment) were beginning to take effect. As he had planned, the pulse of the economy beat slower. The London stock market dipped to a three-year low. Bankers advised clients to postpone expansion plans. In some industries production had already begun to sag. Last week Thorneycroft slashed government investment still further by cutting back allocations for nuclear power plants, modernization of railroads and slum clearance...
Graduate students concurred in this estimate of their views and said that there was a tendency to feel that they could not get their degree in the three-year period proposed by Elder. Another view voiced was that the degree should not be made easier for future students, who, it was implied, should suffer as their predecessors...
Admission. More precise recommendations for work in the three years will follow, but first it is obvious from the brief outline just presented that admission policies must be tightened up if a three-year plan is to be workable. Beyond tightening up the standards in the field in which the man proposes to work, we would especially ask that the language requirements now on our books be fully implemented and that a candidate be required to show that he can write respectable English...