Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent amid such scenes of studied informality and good neighborliness. The meeting was held not in Washington but in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., a watering place set amid the Alleghenies. There was no agenda, little protocol. A U.S. participant described one session of the talks...
Should the many "ifs" in Barnaby's agenda be realized, the Crimson might possibly be headed towards its first Ivy title in many years...
...Albert Gore, chairman of the Privileges and Elections Subcommittee. Last week Gore's three-member subcommittee voted itself a broad franchise calling for a "study of contributions to election campaigns in federal elections and such evidence of corrupt practices as may be revealed." High on Gore's agenda are investigations of lobbying by gas and oil men, by the steel and automobile industries and by labor unions...
Ideas and Plans. Coggeshall's agenda for HEW include getting some money from voluntary health organizations (e.g., the American Cancer Society. National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) for improving medical schools. But his most interesting project is a revolutionary plan for American hospitals. As Coggeshall sees it, there are two kinds of hospital patients: the seriously ill, who need all the services that a hospital can afford, and those who are in for less serious ailments or mere diagnosis. But, he points out, most modern hospital rooms are designed for the first type. They are rigged for all kinds...
This year's ballyhoo is a far cry from the first Smoker held in the Union by the class of 1914. Speakers, light refreshment, and few "reels of high-class movies" filled the usual agenda, and were followed by the "lusty singing of Harvard songs that often shook the Union's mooseheads...