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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be a mistake to attempt to allay their fears by waving America's big stick in the faces of Mr. Macmillan and M. Gaillard. Rather, the U.S. must appear a bit more tractable, more the friend and less the Protector. Words, in this case, can be mightier than The Word. An open ear is often more effective than an open mouth...
...Harvard Opera Guild's proposal for a united theatre group would appear to be a rather undramatic and realistic proposal for a more efficient and better supported series of dramatic productions at Harvard. All too often, a college-wide theatre group has been short of funds and, as a result, could not back a large enough production to make a significant amount of money. The proposed committee would, to a large extent, enable a theatre group to avoid lean years caused by financial deficits from the previous season. The new committee would also allow for more efficient scheduling of production...
...Soviet education as alarmingly successful as their artificial moons make it appear? In a carefully documented new book, Soviet Education for Science and Technology (Technology Press of M.I.T. and John Wiley & Sons; $8.50), Russian-born Engineer Alexander Korol, who left Russia in 1920 and is now a senior researcher at M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies, answers no. While paying just tribute to the Russian system's virtues, Korol also presents a picture of its defects, culled from official papers and statistics, stories in the Soviet press, the observations of foreign travelers and students, and statements...
...result of these policies, the NAACP has come under a rather intense legal fire in many of the southern states, which appear determined to hound and harass that organization out of existence. The NAACP has been a prime mover in bringing school segregation cases into the federal courts to get specific desegregation orders, and because of this legal activity against school districts which refuse to comply with the Supreme Court ruling, the association has been branded as subversive and dangerous...
...first semester of his junior year, he was one of the two assistant managing editors, in charge of the paper two nights a week. The papers of that period were dull and routine by todays standards--one historian has characterized them as "bulletin boards"--and F.D.R.'s appear no different from the rest...