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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before Mather moved into the presidency in 1954. But primarily through Mather's efforts the Amherst school is raising itself from the lower ranks of educational society into the upper reaches--despite the interference of the state legislature. The short-sighted efforts of a few senators on Beacon Hill brought about the president's resignation early last month, ignited public controversy, and demonstrated the tremendous changes in the seam-splitting state university...
...motives; one senator accused him of "trying to play the part of a martyr for education when he is actually scheming to protect his own selfish interests." The senator was utterly mistaken. Mather still does not know what post he will assume come next July. His resignation, however brought much public interest into the open; UMass may well have received more favorable publicity in the 31 days between the death of Bill 1030 and the passage of the compromise hike than in the 96 previous years of its history...
...learn the writer's craft, he ran away from a Washington, D.C. high school to tour with Orson Welles (a truant officer brought him home from Philadelphia); he put in a couple of years in stock, went to Yale Drama School. Then he moved hopefully to Broadway. "As a playwright," he remembers, "I achieved the rank of hotel night clerk at 22, nightward attendant in a psychiatric hospital at 25, a magazine copy boy at 28." It was while he was a copy boy (at TIME) that his play Bullfight became an off-Broadway...
Even more of an upsurge was shown by the birth rate of all new business, both incorporated and unincorporated. In the first six months of the year, the Commerce Department estimated that the nation gained 55,800 businesses, more than in all of last year. The increase brought the total of all U.S. firms to a record...
Thus the coal-mining, textile and auto industry towns, said the Labor Department, bear the burden of chronic unemployment. In Detroit alone, automation, decentralization and lower production have brought the loss of 130,000 auto manufacturing jobs in the past nine years. This means, said the Labor Department, that since 1950 one out of every three auto workers has lost...