Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy over the trial has continued for nearly 30 years. Who was telling the truth? Was it the serene and unfailingly courteous Hiss, who went to Lewisburg prison for 44 months and today, at age 73, still professes innocence? Or was it his brooding, tormented accuser, Whittaker Chambers, who died on his Maryland farm in 1961? Despite a dozen books and hundreds of articles about the case, many of them little more than briefs for one side or the other, the question has not been answered conclusively. Now Allen Weinstein, a respected historian at Smith College, has turned up previously...
...joined the State Department. In the 1940s he rose almost effortlessly as a protege of Secretary Edward Stettinius and his deputy, Dean Acheson, serving as an adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at the Yalta conference and as Secretary-General of the founding convention of the United Nations. In 1947, at age 42, he became president of the prestigious Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
Bilingual programs, still experimental, are plagued by problems. There is an acute shortage of qualified teachers. Textbooks are scarce. One Arabic teacher in Chicago finally telephoned Jordan's King Hussein personally for help; Hussein donated a planeload of textbooks. In an age of tight school budgets, bilingual programs tend to cost about twice as much as regular classes because of special teachers and materials...
Bruce Collier, assistant to the dean for financial affairs, said yesterday the bill now in conference would have little immediate effect on the Faculty, which now offers professors at the age of 66 the choice of teaching a half-load of courses for four years or a full load of courses for two years...
...bill, providing job security until the age of 70, would therefore double the amount of courses such professors could teach, but would not significantly restrict the number of academic openings at Harvard, he said...