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Dates: during 1950-1959
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His resignation, though not entirely unexpected, opens up the forthcoming election for Council President. It had been assumed that Oliver would run again, and he had strong support within the Council. To date, no one has announced his candidacy, but this latest development will probably increase the number of hats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oliver Abandons Council Position, Treasurer's Post | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

Munro will go with the same basic lineup that has given the varsity a 5-0-3 record so far this season. The only players in doubtful shape are insides John Mudd and Hedreen. Mudd has been bothered by a trick ankle, and Hedreen is suffering from shin splints. The...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Varsity to Face Wesleyan; Freshman Squad Downs MIT, 1-0 | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

1947 was a year of awakening for the West, a year when the United States and its allies finally realized that the war with the Axis powers had been succeeded almost immediately by a more subtle struggle with Soviet Russia. Signs of this awakerning included Winston Churchill's phrase "the...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Studying the Enigmas of the Soviet Union | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

Russian became more than a power to reckon with; it was a nation that Americans needed desperately to study and to understand. Academic circles realized that American scholarship in the Russian field had been sporadic, disorganized and incomplete. And thus, in the spring of 1947, the Carnegie Corporation proposed the...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Studying the Enigmas of the Soviet Union | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

When the Center opened in 1948, American scholars could obtain the compilations of Ministerial decrees. This access was cut off in Stalin's tightening up of 1949 and 1950, and has not yet been restored, although individual decrees are now available. Since about 1956, there has been a "greater flow...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Studying the Enigmas of the Soviet Union | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

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