Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news of the ship's sinking was relayed to New York, where a family whose son had graduated splendidly from Harvard College wept for days and then was persuaded to do something to commemorate his brief passage. "On Widener Library you shall maintain your University." The silence there is stunning. The African studies his Shakespeare. The Jew goes on with his Greek. Shall we ever learn what we need to know...
...brief address, given after he was sworn in as President of Harvard College on October 13, 1953, Nathan M. Pusey said he would take a special interest in trying "to keep assembled here the very best teachers that can be found, to work to ensure conditions conducive to their best efforts, and constantly to strive for more effective ways to make their activity touch, quicken, and strengthen the intellectual aspirations of succeeding generations of young people...
Undaunted by a brief shower, 250 seniors in cap and gown had queued up in the far corner of the Yard and marched in formal procession to Memorial Church, doffing their hats in the traditional manner as they passed the statue of John Harvard...
...little white lies by establishing "residence" in states where the divorce laws are less rigid. Said Bronx Rabbi Maurice J. Bloom in a sermon last week: "It is not fair to the citizenry when only the rich can take dubious advantage of fictitious residence in another state for a brief time, and the less opulent are given an example of avoiding our laws by those who can afford it. If New York State had a proper marriage and divorce code, neither Governor Rockefeller nor his first wife [who got a Nevada divorce on the ground of extreme mental cruelty...
...Boulder, Colo., the home-town folks cheered Astronaut Scott Carpenter, 38, on hand to dedicate a new $195,000 community swimming pool. Following Carpenter's brief speech, Mayor John P. Holloway rose to say: "When you open a highway, you cut a ribbon. When you build a building, you lay a cornerstone. In the case of a pool, the only way . . ." Thus, done with formalities, the mayor and three Boulder officials threw the triple-orbiting spaceman -trim grey suit, white shirt, striped tie and all-headlong into the water, manfully jumped in after...