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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nineteen passengers, including five Americans, and three crewmen stepped out unharmed when the twin-engine C-46 landed at Miami International Airport. The hijackers were grabbed by U.S. border patrolmen...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Grotewohl Dims Hopes for Accord In Big Power Talks on Germany; Castro Foes Steal Plane, Escape | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

President Pusey yesterday announced the appointment of Laurence Wylie, a Haverford professor, to the newly created C. Douglas Dillon Professorship of the Civilization of France...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Chair Filled In French Study | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

...contribution to the program for Harvard College, Clarence Dillon endowed the Professorship which bears the name of his son, C. Douglas Dillon, the present Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs. The position may be held by men in various academic fields who contribute to the understanding of French civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Chair Filled In French Study | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

Flying in C-47's over the Hump from Calcutta to Kunming could be frightening. Sometimes they would run into storms and go down, he recalls, and "You'd always wonder whether you were going to make it. One night fourteen planes went down...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: World War II: Faculty Plays Key Role | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

...Harvard's failure to raise its own academic standards. The list itself does not mean that much; it could be changed to include only students in Group II. But this would vindicate a chance remark of Professor Owen, who commented in a History 142 lecture that the "gentleman's C" of yesteryear is now a "gentleman's B minus." If more students each year make the Dean's List because they are better students, it means that Harvard fails to raise its standards--what it expects of these students--accordingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOWNGRADING | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

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