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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clandestine flights to Cuba from 200-odd Florida airfields. And at week's end, the U.S. cracked down hard on the flights, while adding the friendly gesture of sending planes and ships to look for Cuban Army Chief Camilo Cienfuegos, who dis appeared in a light plane over central Cuba. The note also "categorically rejected" a favorite Castro myth - that the U.S. press is "engaged in a deliberate campaign to misrepresent and discredit the Government of Cuba." While on the subject of controlling Castro-hating exiles in the U.S., the State Department delivered a stinging lecture on democracy: "Persons...
...year. Other nine-month steel earnings: 1958 1959 Bethlehem Steel $1.68 $1.75 Jones & Laughlin 1.45 3.15 Wheeling Steel 1.80 2.78 Inland Steel 1.86 1.99 While second-quarter earnings made up for the third-period shutdown for most steel companies, they were not enough for ailing railroads. The New York Central reported a deficit for the third consecutive month, and a cut in nine months' earnings to 52? per share v. $1.56 per share at the end of June. The Pennsylvania had a $2.3 million loss in September that wiped out its eight months' profit and put the road...
Next fall, as part of its $53 million Program, Princeton will open its first "social quadrangle"--a block-square complex of five dormitories (housing from 270 to 300 students), a central dining hall, library and social facility (in place of the traditional eating clubs). Although it is limited in size, the quad represents a significant departure from the Princeton tradition of dormitories and private eating clubs...
...critical problems is the program's relation to the departments. During the early years when there was a great deal of enthusiam for General Education, and the Committee was the central force in guiding undergraduate education, the problem of courses like Social Sciences 1 caused a good deal of discussion, for there was much resentment at the incorporation of a departmental course (Social Sciences 1 was the old History 1) into the program. In the last few years, however, the problem has acquired new aspects...
Although the undergraduate remains the School's central concern, a new program was devised after the War for graduates interested in public administration. Unlike the college program, the graduate division has competitors: the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts, Harvard's Littauer Center of Public Administration, and Georgetown University in Washington...