Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aim of the conference is to "discuss Republican Party policy from the viewpoint of the College generation." To accomplish this the delegates will split into seven panel discussion groups this afternoon after their opening plenary session in Littauer...
...made by the Dean's Office, with the advice of the Student Council. This is certainly a far cry from the traditional College attitude towards extra-curricular activities. Not only is the new approach administratively far more complicated than the old, but it also subverts the College's overall aim of developing and encouraging student self-reliance...
Seventeen months after seizing power in 1948, General Manuel Odria's government finally achieved its avowed aim of eliminating the top leadership of the outlawed Aprista party. The non-Stalinist group, once the most powerful in the country, draws its doctrine from Marx and its support from Peru's impoverished Indian agrarians. When APRA's founder Victor Raul Haya de la Torre sought refuge in the Colombian embassy a year ago last January, he left a triumvirate to direct the party. Last fortnight two of the three, Senator Cirilo Cornejo and Deputy Luis Felipe de las Casas...
...finished product is probably as good as most summer stock productions. Quinn and Holland aim at leaving their viewers satisfied, if not stimulated. Ideally, says Quinn, "we try to find a story of fairly simple people in an extraordinarily emotional situation." But the ideal specifications cannot always be met. Last week's show, The Queen's Husband, written by Robert Emmet Sherwood in 1928, told how a constitutional monarch outwitted a domineering wife and a dictatorial prime minister by uniting with a Communist-Labor coalition. Kraft's version emerged as pure Graustark, with not a Communist...
Counting Cancers. The proportion of cancers detected in apparently well people is not high-between 1% and 2%, according to age and sex. But detection of developed cancers is not Dr. L'Esperance's main goal. Her long-term aim is prevention. True prevention cannot come until far more is learned about cancer in the laboratories (TIME, June 27). Meanwhile, the prevention of fully malignant cancers can be achieved, Dr. L'Esperance believes, if precancerous signs are spotted early enough by a physician who knows what to look for and how to look for it. That...