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Senior author Theodore Caplow is a sociologist at the University of Minnesoto, while Reece J. McGee is from the University of Texas. Their book is an analysis of employment policy in major American universities. Their "data" consists of interviews with the department chairman and another colleague of every professor who voluntarily or involuntarily vacated a chair in any one of nine large universities between July 1954 and July 1956. Their conclusion is that universities seek employees who will enhance their national prestige, which means employees whose publications will receive national attention...
Squaw Valley's Alec Gushing provides a classic example of old-fashioned American capitalism at its best: the selfish motivation of one has provided benefit...
...rugged beauty of the cliff-crowned bay, the shiny glamour of the hotels, the cheers of the people, and in the friendliness of the President, Adolfo López Mateos. President Eisenhower's trip, occasioned by his desire to demonstrate the U.S.'s deep respect for Latin American solidarity, was, in fact, a cheery and most productive political journey...
High Dives & Dancers. That afternoon, Ike and his host got away from the crowds, boarded President López Mateos white, 168-ft. yacht Sotavento, cruised for four hours in the glistening bay as they talked business with their aides (one U.S. staffer: Latin American...
Brazilian newspapers applauded the news last week that President Eisenhower had picked Clare Boothe Luce to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Brazil-the U.S.'s first woman envoy to a Latin American country. Sometime journalist (managing editor of Vanity Fair at 29), playwright (The Women), movie author and scenarist (Come to the Stable) and Congresswoman (from Connecticut, 1943-47), Clare Luce, 55, served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy for 3½ eventful years-1953-56. During her service in Rome, Communism's threat to Italy was decisively broken, and she helped settle the explosive old quarrel between...