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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Association of University Professors has denounced the practice of requiring students supported by federal grants to take loyalty oaths, an official release announced recently. Some of the grants in question have been created under the government's new National Defense Education Act...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teachers See Loyalty Oath Out of Place | 12/18/1958 | See Source »

About 25 Harvard Law School students will act as personal administrative assistants to members of the Massachusetts State Legislature during the 1959 session, Charles L. Edson 3L, President of the Law School Democratic Club, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students to Help State Legislators | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

...name reversed the stand of his predecessor, George Fingold. Under Massachusetts law, a trustee may be sued for mismanagement only through the Attorney General unless he goes to court voluntarily. The Association for the Arboretum has charged in its publications that the Corporation "persuaded" Fingold not to act...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: Corporation Faces Trial In Breach of Trust Suit | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

EASIER CREDIT will be offered to smaller companies. Small Business Administration formerly handled only loans to firms with fewer than 500 employees. But with new ruling under Small Business Investment Act, which made $250 million available in credit (TIME, June 9), almost any business is eligible if it has assets of less than $5,000,000, annual profits less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

N.C.R.'s restless research has brought some exciting new inventions, such as a carbonless carbon paper (chemically coated sheets that reproduce type on impact). While working on this, N.C.R. discovered a method of enclosing liquid in microscopic gelatin capsules, thus making a liquid look and act like a solid. So treated, castor oil becomes tasteless-because it is covered with gelatin. More than 1,000 companies are investigating the process to see if it can be used for their own products, and the Pentagon has contracted with National to "encapsulate" liquid rocket fuel so that it will pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOMATION: National Cashes In | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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