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...Aiken says that the traditional division of courses at Harvard was saved only through "very eloquent opposition, in part by certain humanistically oriented scientists." But the general trend in University education today, at Harvard and elsewhere, is, he says, "in the direction of the forms of specialized research and instruction which are useful to the national society and which therefore receive the largesse of its government...
...when it was over, all had been hustled through the assembly line. On one key measure, the Senate voted in the absence of 30 members, most of whom had left to fight home-state campaign battles. Lamenting the proportionate absence of deliberation on the Senate floor, Vermont Republican George Aiken remarked: "I've never seen the Senate act more irresponsibly...
...even the U.S. Senate could fathom all the intricacies of the bill's formula. "I think the Senator is partly mixed up with the next amendment to be discussed," said Delaware Republican John Williams last week during the final debate. Replied Vermont Republican George Aiken: "I am thoroughly mixed up, not partly...
...died in April 1945, at Warm Springs, Ga., the reports of the visit indicate that both she and Mrs. Elizabeth Shoumatoff, an artist who was doing a watercolor portrait of F.D.R. (and who had previously painted Lucy), left the house as soon as F.D.R. was stricken, and went to Aiken, S.C. They were not present when he died...
...Lucy's close friend, Mrs. Eulalie Salley, 82, of Aiken, who recently said that Roosevelt was in love with Lucy, but termed "ridiculous" the hint of some thing scandalous in the relationship, had, if not the last word, at least the most powerful...