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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Academy who teach military history have read with great pleasure "Greatest & Last Battle of a Naval Era" [Oct. 26]. The author of the story of Leyte Gulf has done a very fine job of condensing this great battle. Your organization most courteously provided for us copies of your similar treatment of the Battle of Midway. We have used Mr. Chapin's diagrammatic portrayal of that battle in our classrooms. It has been most helpful...
...Snow, British scientist and author, recently called attention to what he termed the problem of two cultures in our society--the gap in understanding between the traditional humanities and social sciences on the one hand and modern science and technology on the other. Both exist side by side, yet remain intellectually divorced in our modern society. This dichotomy serves well in considering the difficulties surrounding the discipline of economics, for its midway position in such a scheme is indicative of its problems...
...AMERICAN REPUBLIC. Foreign Policy and Survival, Part I. Walter Millis, journalist and military historian, author of The Road to War and Arms and Man. (Fund for the Republic...
...SYMPOSIUM ON EVOLUTION, marking the centenary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. Darwin Recalled, Bernard J. Boelen, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University; Biology--Viruses and Evolution, Frederick C. Bawden, M.A.F.R.S., Rothamsted Experimental Station for botanical research, author...
...Author, economist, historian, and expert on Russian culture, Karpovich was on the University Faculty until his retirement two years ago. During this time, he served as chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and was active in movements to aid fellow anti-Communist Russian exiles...