Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howard H. Aiken, professor of Mathematics and director of the Harvard Computation Laboratory, said that he expects about 850 people to be at the symposium altogether, including speakers. The papers are being delivered by invitation only, thus assuring that the most distinguished experts in the world will be there, he explained...
Vermont's progressive-minded George D. (for David) Aiken, 64, was something of a "Modern Republican" in the U.S. Senate before Dwight D. (for David) Eisenhower made bird colonel. Last week Aiken applauded the politics represented by the President's favorite ''Modern Republican" term, but favored throwing the term overboard. "It is misleading and is badly misused," Aiken told the Women's National Republican Club in Manhattan. "It irritates a lot of good people...
...Aiken read this irritation in stacks of letters from voters; their definitions of New or Modern Republicanism "ranged all the way from a reincarnation of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era to a very liberal interpretation of Karl Marx." Now that a G.O.P. Administration has made a record for four years, Aiken believes that modifiers in front of the party's name serve only to divide its members. His suggested substitute: just plain "Republican...
...Toughened up by energetic devotion to his career as a gentleman farmer, Northrup Knox, 28, of Buffalo, N.Y. and Aiken, S.C., demonstrated an almost tireless skill at the esoteric game of court tennis. After an afternoon's romp on the court at Boston's Tennis and Racquet Club, Knox left longtime (eight years) Champion Alastair Bradley Martin, 42, limp with exhaustion, won the U.S. amateur singles championship...
...Arcularis is still gripping throughout, and often beautiful. It is also extremely frightening. Despite its imbalance it is excellent reading, and should make good theatre. If Aiken does not give all we suspect he feels, he gives us at least a truly thoughtful tale...