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The Junior Prom: Against an underwater motif, the Battle of the Bands. A TENSION was visible in China as the Tachens exodus began under United States Seventh Fleet ' s cover. After ten days, the Tachens were bare, and not a shot had been fired. Dulles announced that American policy had drawn the line of defense at Formosa, but time was running out on the UN peace talks. The United States continued to seek a cease-fire. Yale men, as well as experts in all parts of America, began to listen with respect to the studied opinions of Yale President A. Whitney Griswold, as he spoke out in behalf of education. The need for schools and ele- mentary school teachers was crucial, he con- ceded, but he firmly announced that Yale would not increase its enrollment to meet the rising number of college candidates. He would not turn Yale into a mail order college; Yale would become more select, searching not merely for the more specialized man, but in a general sense, the better man. She would not become a school for beetle-browed intellectualism. THE YEAR ' S SPOTLIGHTED SPORTSMEN: Willie Say hey Mays. Tom Gola, everybody ' s All-American. Roger Bannister and friend. Golfer Ed Furgol.

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Franklin Baumer The bitch goddess, Success. Bishop Henry Sherrill seek the truth and teach it without fear. Lee A. DuBridce Secrecy in basic science is a dangerous and subversive influence. Chester Bowles The Russians are beginning to smile at people. Archibald MacLeish Your generation thinks of the twenties as a romantic era. I never found them so. Norman Thomas Government today depends upon the whims of the pro- ducers. Arthur Schlesincer, Jr. The middle of the road: a policy of vacillation. Walter Robertson Asia is living on borrowed time.

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In sports, Bill Cranston, top man on the Eli tennis team, was nudged out of the Na- tional Indoor Championships hy eventual champion Tony Trabert, but Eli track men, led by weight man Stew Thompson, trounced Princeton and Harvard handily in their an- nual meet. Two long success stories ended suddenly as Yale ' s freshman swimming team lost its first meet after 121 consecutive wins, and a thief was finally caught after numerous successful robberies in student rooms. At the alumni banquet, President Griswold awarded medals to Marshall Bartholomew and Chaun- cey Tinker for outstanding service to the university. Commented Tinker: There are only two things you can do when they say things like that about you. One is to die, and that ' s possible. The other is to live up to it, and that ' s impossible. The AF of L and the CIO, the two great union organizations, finally combined, and, just about this time, the French government started its long and tiring quest for a new premier. Candidate upon candidate paraded to the rostrum, only to be cast aside by votes of no confidence; finally Edgar Faure suc- ceeded in forming a winning coalition. The Yale Daily News broke a long-stand- ing tradition by not publishing a Saturday issue. The Harvard Crimson filled the gap, and the battle for supremacy began. The Dramat announced a new spring musical, So What, and perennial favorite Harvey Benat- ovich was to take a leading role. Pierson was celebrating its twenty-first birthday with a banquet and reminiscences from its former masters. A sudden freeze ruined a three million dollar Georgia peach crop, and the contro- versial papers on the Yalta Conference were released by the State Department. Dr. Jonas Salk of the University of Michi- gan announced the success of his polio vac- cine, while at Yale chairman Thomas Men- denhall introduced the latest version of the Report of the President ' s Committee on Gen- eral Education. On April 5, time finally caught up with Time ' s Man of the Half-Century as Sir Win- ston Churchill retired after a lifetime of pub- lic service. In an age when men battled for su- premacy in atomic weapons and strug- gled to conquer the killer diseases. Yale found herself becoming a center of scientific progress. Top — The foundations are laid for the AEC-sponsored Physics Laboratory. Middle — An artist ' s conception of the proposed Bio-Physics Laboratory. Bottom — An artist ' s conception of the planned Cancer Laboratory. 21