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Oxford, Apr. 23. SING the opaque glass panel of the door for a mirror, the undergraduate on the doorstep of No. 41, St. Giles's Street, Oxford, was put-

ting last-minute touches to an unruly mop of hair with a poc- ket comb.

- The undergraduate was go- ing for an interview with the

University Appointments Com- mittee. Through

their

offices at

41, Gilers (as the street is common- ly known) about 82 percent of those students who subsequently enter industry and commerce

of business.

that he was an

Escape

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We'll soon see if we backed the right fighter

A

LARGE-SCALE air If more big-scalo · ́engage-

battle was fought over menis tako place--and in- Korea recently involving enemy

telligence reports regarding the bulk-up suggest that escorted U.S. heavy bombers they will-tho R.A.F. will and Russian MiG 16'sighters, watch results with anxious at- Altogether 225 planes wero tention.

said to have been involved. For extra piquancy is given

Study the timing of this first big clash alongside the

the Russians have great num- to the struggle by the fact that bers of bombers of exactly the

news of the MacArthur- same kind of the Superforts, are, in fact, carbon Truman split. It a signi They ficant. It meana

that the copies.

powers, Russia and the

world's two greatest air Cheese-paring United States, are taking TN addition, the R.A.F. has no each other's measure under interceptor Aghter in the conditiona which greatly same class as the awept-wing favour the Russians.

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MIGs and Sabres. -

The Communists have Rightly OT wrongly-and most people would say wrong- Jong wanted an opportunity lywe have delayed. in. putting to try out their new MIG swept-wing fighters into pro- 15 fighters against the best duction, concentrating on types bombers and escort fighters which are slower but have a belter climb and greater that the United States could manœuvrability at very high put against them.

Now they can do so with an ab- solute choice of time and place and the certain Itnowledge that their bases aro inviolate from at- tack. Until Mac- Arthur went they could not be cer- tain of these two factors.

allitudes.

by HUGH DUNDAS

As the new term starts at Oxford and Cambridge, ROBERT KINGSLEY sooks an answer to the question: What is a BA worth to-day if you're looking for a job-?

About 350 women students graduated last June, of those there are probably between 30 enemy's planes by bringing There is no doubt that the and 60 now looking for jobs. them to action under con- choice is due in some measure

According to Miss Doris Fone,ditions of your own choosing,

to cheese-paring. For the MA, secretary to the Women's

Venoms could be made easily Appointments Committee, most

What

are the weapons in- and quickly on the same ligs women want jobs with the big volved?

used for Vampires, while swept- International agencies (UNO

wing fighters would have to UNESCO

be started from scratch. and so on), or in literature or with the BBC.

The jobs on offer are more likely

rely to be secretarial ones in Industry or trainee-jobs with the

THE MIG 15 let plone, with a Russian-bulit Rolls Royce Nene engine, dies at 650 m.p.h., has two 23mm, cannon and one of 37mm

Thus the Americans arc A typical example is the de denied the opportunity of aven Havilland Venom, now in pro- trying to establish the first duction and due for squadron principle of air superiority-the service shortly. principle of destroying the

Of the rest 40 percent stayed on to do special work or re- search. The Appointments Com- mittee found jobs in business for 224, and the latest available figure, at the end of last year, showed that 105 were, from the committee's point of view, un- employed.

Temporary Jobs apart, gra- duates who go into business, may expect to start with salary in the £400 to £500 a year bracket.

WASTING

HIS TIME?

A

. Two years ago the figure was 400; this year it is likely to average £450.

Their university training, 1 they have lived carefully, will have cost

big stores.

Only one firm in the country, Bays Miss Fone, will accept women graduates for training in the way that management in men are trained.

In America

to get about getting-graduates, Women Arts graduates must view): "If in general

tarial, social science, librarian-

Was the policy justified? The American fighter pilots will And the answer the hard

-(London Expresi Serolce)

On the one side Superforts and F.86 Sabre fighters. On the other MIG 16s. The Superforts for their defence not so much on speed as on very heavy fire power. A fighter at- way. tacking

nformation of these: bombers as faced by a terry- ing battery of 20mm, cannons, centrally controlled and almed by radur.

all

I'd choose –

On

£1,050 (three years COMPARING the use made of HERE are few things which at 350 a year) but Aris graduates by industry I would lice to do less they

a formation. will stiil, in Britain and Ameriça, Mc G.] than attack such make their first

despite their de. W. Anson, deputy chairman of But if I had to do so I think grees, be only the Imperial Tobacco Company, I would choose an MIG 15, nequaintance with the world says. "But there are many trainees in business practice. wrote last year (in the FBI Re-

firms still that don't know how

the For these planes are as fast The trouble the young man and there is still opposition in in nearly all cases must greater efficiency of American as anything in the world, und industry is accepted-as-a-fact, so, having a high overtaking look over his coiffure suggested some quarters from the trade some specialised courses divergence of practice between time in the danger area.

and f there is a marked speed, spend only the minimum Arts student unions, for instance. and not a scientist. A scientist

the two countries in thetr ure top

of that they carry bigger would hardly have to trouble

What the trade unionist does before they get a job, unless of Arts graduates, it is at least guns than RAF, or USA.F. how he looked. Demand for not realise, very often, is that they go into the teaching pro- worth considering whether it Aghters, which means they are their kind keeps abreast indeed the graduate who gets a job is fession, which currently is not a

be one of the factors lethal at greater range. a little ahead of supply.

just as likely to be his work great favourite.

contributing

American The male's son the son of his

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superiority, The young man who will gra- managing director. The number Their university training costs The boy combing his hair on duate this summer with an Arts of undergraduates here who are them in the neighbourhood of the doorstep in St. Giles may by degree, however, needs to im- receiving some kind of financial £225 a year, and when they this summer be first-footing In press. There is a growing ten- grant or other has never fallen have completed it and taken the industry, or he may be marking dency for Arts graduates to find below 80 percent since the war,

But it has one handicap: it dimcult to get jobs that are in

extra course, they may expect time in a temporary job. Which Last June between 1,200 and to earn £300 to £350 a year. it is to be will depend partly a comparatively underarmed. line with their qualifications,

upon him, partly upon the Against the Russians' heavy undergraduates eat for The number down in the books 1,300

That figure may seem to com- Appointments Committee and cannons the F.80 can only of university

appointments their final examinations at Ox-

muster pare favourably with the men's, partly upon industry-from the

half a dozen 0.5-inch boards and committees as un- ford.

but it is decepilve.

machine guns. Men may managing director to the trades employed shows Knall but

Q stendy rise.

hope to rise quickly from their unionist on the bench. Initial salary; the same is not true for women graduates.

IN

Even barmen

the Ministry of Labour sense

of the word, few graduates

are unemployed, for many take temporary jobs as shop assis-

Of those, roughly a quarter were scientists who had no dim- culty in finding jobs.

to

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Pbeen asked by Bup-

tants, say, or barmen-while RESIDENT Truman has walting for posts for which a three-year training with a de- gree has fitted them.

There is nothing yet to be alummed about," says Mr Charles Ewart Escritt, MA, secretary of the Oxford University Appoint- ments Committee, "but there is

a

trend that must be watched."

to invite General porters

his military advisers. MacArthur to become one of

An office in the War Depari- ment has been prepared for

And, conservatively, he adds: "It MacArthur by the U.S. Army.

__1_not_more_difficull_for_a_man.

to get the kind of job he wants,

but it is, well, less easy.""

Mr Escritt is a friendly, cigarette-smoking athletle-look- ing man of 46 who himself went into industry after taking Arts degree from Keble College.

an

He becamo sales manager of a

big textile group in the North of England. There, his job in part consisted of interviewing, select-- ing and training salesmen.. No in a room that has affinities with

a don's study (Oxford prints on

By MERCURY

The British cement industry is concerned at growing Japan- ese competition in the Far East.

Red China has acquired a minetaying submarine dotilia from the Soviet Navy.

General Eisenhower and Mr America will place two Bd- Churchill will be guests of Vis- visors with

Montgomery at the the West German count

Alamein reunion in London this Government this summer

year. limit Imports.

to

Ten thousand British Eighth reports that Egypt intends to attend it on October 10.

The War Office Is worried by Army men and their wives will

boycott British forces in Suez.

•

Brilish steel exports will

One measure would be with- slump. In May. More rolling

the walls, cricket fixtures pinned drawal of Egyptian labour from mills are expected to close,”

to a board) and with a business-British, camps.

Pan's offen (trade magazines |

arranged on a table, the

Directory of Directors,

Stock

Exchange Year-book, Whitaker'

Reasons are exhaustion of

Italy has proposed that all ote stocks, with ore ships switch- on his shelves), he interviews North Atlanile countries offer undergraduate about their Russia a non-aggreizston pact.

"The increasing recognition by. industry of f the value of

Successful shoots with atomic university training has been, sholla have been made by US. since the war, remarkable,?, heartillery.

ed to coal, and failings, in direc- tion of the industry by the Steel Corporation.

adviser to the Nationalist forces in Formosa.

The US is shipping more arms and food to Formoss for a long-term occupation.

Norway may open up disused -sulphur pyrites mines to-meet-

the world shortage.

The Norwegian Government would expect Britain to share the costs of the enterprise.

France has granted a credit of £7,000,000 to Marshal Tito to buy, French weapons and equip

ment.

Soviet broadcasts to America wlit be increased by four hours dally, and will be mainly about', the war in Korea.

•

This is an attempt to weaken the American attitude after the dismissal of General MacArthur.

A new "threat to British car, exports is the 'Australian” Härt-

· Ching Kai-shelc has invited nett light car. Fivo hundred General MacArthur to become will be built monthly,.

F.80 Sabre, the fastest non-Communist . fighter in the world, appears so far to match up fairly evenly with the MIG

in performance,

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

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