Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman, wan and weary, throttled his calendar back to idling speed last week as the hour grew closer for his departure for Key West, Fla. and five weeks' vacation. He delivered his speech on world disarmament before the television cameras, bade formal farewell to India's Ambassador Madame Pandit (who is going home to stand for Parliament), and rambled and reminisced his way through three days' worth of pleasant ceremonial chores...
...name of Ralph W. Apley stands among the great names in the Open Alumni Hall. Apley was the first man who turned himself in merely for thinking about shattering a regulation. The student court system, while approving of Apley's zeal, elected not to accept the case on its calendar...
...calendar problem could, of course, be solved by the simple expedient of increasing the number of trial judges. But Open feels that nothing of this sort should be done, lest it tend to lower the quality of the judiciary. Rather a 29-month wait for true justice than a swift and slipshod treatment of individual rights and liberties, say the university savants. In any event, they point out, increased effort by the present number of solons will probably eliminate the court backlog within twenty or thirty years...
...important secretarial jobs at Harvard belongs to Miss Virginia Proctor. As President Conant's secretary, she make all his appointments, types his speeches, keeps a schedule calendar three months in advance, and handles between fifty and a hundred letters every day. She has been on President Conant's staff for the past five years...
...Call-Bulletin reporter picked up the story at the city's Public Utilities Commission; the institute's rental request was listed on the commission's mimeographed calendar, open for public inspection. After the story was in print, the Bulletin called the institute (which is independent of Stanford University) for more facts, was told that the dog project was a military secret. The institute asked City Editor Jack McDowell to kill the story. Why, then, asked McDowell, hadn't the papers been warned that the project was classified? Answered an institute spokesman: "Oh, we couldn...