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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heritage: Cash & Causes. The Cowles approach to foreign affairs is part of the legacy of Gardner Cowles Sr., onetime school superintendent with a talent for real estate, who founded the family empire in 1903 by paying $300,000 for the faltering Des Moines Register & Leader. After World War I, when the Midwest wanted no truck with foreign alliances, the elder Cowles backed the League of Nations, argued that Iowa's crop surpluses meant that the state would inevitably be entangled with nations abroad. John and Gardner ("Mike") Cowles expanded to new monopoly in Minneapolis during the early...
...language departments at Harvard had allowed themselves to stagnate simply because, as Edward Geary, coordinator of Languages puts it, "no one had ever taken the trouble before." But besides this obvious answer, there is one other somewhat nebulous reason for the college's emphasis on old systems. Harvard's approach to language teaching has always been on the "literary" level. That is to say, when a professor was teaching a class how to speak French, he was really teaching his students about France. The goal of any elementary language course here was to teach the student how to read...
...cutting into the scandalous $7 billion-a-year cost of farm programs, switching to the states some federal responsibilities for slum clearance, aid to the aged etc. But it is in the $40 billion defense budget that the real cuts must be made if the Administration is to approach its budget goals. To that end. President Eisenhower has ordered that a decision, delayed for many months, be made at last between the Air Force IRBM Thor and its Army rival Jupiter...
...explanation of this behavior is based on the relativistic principle that objects moving at extremely high speed become foreshortened in the direction of their motion. Particles that are essentially spheres at low speed are thought to turn into thin disks as they closely approach the speed of light. When two of these speeding disks collide broadside on, they pass through each other in so short a time that they cannot exchange much energy. Dr. Schein's balloon-borne plates may confirm or demolish this theory...
Meanwhile, Father is making desperate attempts to be friendly, but the children are far too coony to be taken in. "What's this," sneers the older boy when Father tries to teach him how to fish, "the Huckleberry Finn approach?" And when he mildly reproves the younger son for some particularly brattish behavior, Sophia indignantly tells him: "Try to be a parent, not a policeman." In the end, when Father is reduced to gibbering ineffectiveness, the woman calmly and efficiently takes over and puts the poor man out of his misery by marrying him. At this point the children...