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There is no need to review the report like a book; surface it to say that it covers the subject and is written in a lively, interesting style. But there are important points in it that could do with restatement to a wider audience than the report is likely to get, and which give an excellent insight into just what constitutes the social, economic, and ideological foundation on which Harvard rests...
...civilian plane, the DC-7. The four-engined commercial transport will have a top speed of more than 400 m.p.h. and a cruising speed of more than 360 m.p.h., 50 m.p.h. faster than the DC-6. Eight feet longer than the DC-6, the new plane will have wider aisles and seats and carry 60 to 95 passengers, v. 46 to 70 in the DC-6. American Airlines has 25 DC-75 on order, will put the first planes in service...
...Anybody Listening? The wider issue, the question of wage stabilization, was not so easily settled. The Truman Administration sent in a team of speechmakers to urge the C.I.O. to take it easy on the wage front. Truman opened the discussion in his message to the convention. "We must get our own defense production program rolling in high gear," he said, "and we must find the way to do this without bringing on renewed inflation ... It means restrained and responsible actions by businessmen, farmers-and workers, too . . ." Later, after a $15-a-plate roast beef dinner, Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle...
...course, the principle behind this one action has wider applications. Colleges which enticed players with convertibles would not use these players against teams which only provided their footballers with straight scholarships. Men who were only able to stay in college (and on the team) through special academic dispensations could not be used against the stricter schools which refused to lower their requirements. These rules would have the double salutary effect of enabling colleges to buy as husky a team as they wished while making individual games more highly competitive...
Partly because of its size and because of its traditional reputation, the school draws its student body from a wider geographical and economic range than Yale. In 1949, Harvard Law students represented 255 different colleges, as against Yale's 146, for example. Of course, getting to know a variety of people in a group of 1500 demands initiative which is unnecessary in the smaller school...