Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operate. Douglas also has commercial jets, stalemated at the paper stage. So does Boeing, which said, perhaps overoptimistically, that it could produce a 500-m.p.h. transport within 18 months of receiving a contract. But Boeing's Vice President Wellwood E. Beall warned that Congress would have to act soon. Said he: "We will lose not only world markets to the British jets, but because of competition may find our own airlines forced into buying British...
Frederic D. Houghteling '50 was elected national NSA secretary and will serve from January, 1950 through January, 1951. He will also act as regional (Northern New England) treasurer. Robert J. Stern '50, the Harvard relegation chairman, was elected regional NSA leader, thus necessitating an election later in the term to name a new College chairman...
Action Committees, the NSA reports, "now act as policy-making organs, drawing programs and making all political decisions. . . . All political problems are decided by the Action Committees "so the faculty (departmental) unions can carry out their programs...
This spirit is perhaps best shown in rooting. Rooting for a team may be a casual act for an Easterner, but Californians take their cheering seriously. The supreme example of this is the West coast's Big Game--Stamford vs. California. These rivals from different sides of San Francisco Bay have been slugging it out with an intensity matched only by the Harvard-Yale tradition. But the Eastern rivalry is merely a contest between teams; out West, the whole school joins in the fray...
Thirteen floors below the Hiss trial, 11 Communists made life no easier for those seeking answers. Did or did not the hedging testimony of the Party leaders mean that they were advocating revolution? And was the Smith Act constitutional? Tough questions, and they seemed tougher still in a court of law surrounded by pickets and counter-pickets...