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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Laird was being sworn into the Senate (and parrying questions about any intention of remaining there), Democrats at home jockeyed for election to the Kilgore term, which runs until Jan. 3, 1959. Among the contestants: ex-Classmate William C. Marland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old School Tie | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...quick sandwich was all they had time for. At 4 p.m. they had an appointment with Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, and Morris M. Goldings '57 in Eliot C...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: A Television Show Comes to Harvard | 3/24/1956 | See Source »

...finally decided to give camera 2 the zoomar. This is the one for the 'Merchant' scenes. Camera 1 was set for C-11, where Kennedy and the tutorial would appear. Camera 3 would take Finley's study...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: A Television Show Comes to Harvard | 3/24/1956 | See Source »

...trick is to remember that while the value of a number in Arabic numerals depends on its position (e.g., 2 in 126 is worth 20), an X, V, L or C is still ten, five, 50 or 100 no matter where it appears. Thus, in finding the answer to "What is XXVIII multiplied by XII?", a Roman might have multiplied from left to right the top number by each numeral in the bottom number. Taking X (10) times XXVIII, he would get 20X5, ten Vs and 30 Is, which would become CCLXXX. After adding XXVIII and XXVIII to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Prodigies | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...however, the College feels that two B's and two C's are the absolute minimum performance to be expected of a student, it seems anachronistic to use the endowment to support several hundred such students who are nominally 'paying their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Money for the Unscholarly | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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