Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...N.A.A.C.P. propagandist; it was pronounced in 1948 by Fred Hand, then the speaker of Georgia's own House of Representatives. Hand's observation has now been expanded and documented in a beacon-bright study titled The Negro Potential (Columbia University; $3). The book, containing a statistics-studded chapter on Negro education in the U.S., was produced by Columbia's Conservation of Human Resources Project, a research task force initiated in 1950 by Columbia's President Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Under the guidance of Howard Greene, Trip Chairman, the Boston chapter now meets once a month, and up to 125 members attend discussions of railroad topics. "Some of us just never grow up," Greene believes. "We may mature in some ways, but there's always something of a kid in a rail fan." Greene has carried his kidstuff to the point that he now possesses one of the country's largest libraries of railroadiania--about 3,500 volumes, "though I can't match Harvard's collection," he admits...
Burke charged that the write-in drive for Stevenson was sponsored by the ADA and that the organization was "trying to take over the party." Samuel H. Beer, Professor of Government and chairman of the state ADA chapter, denied that the group had endorsed any candidate...
Some of the problems of the job are set forth in an interoffice publication whose chapter headings range from "Obstetrics" to "Of necklines, lust and divorce." Complaints pour in daily, blasting NBC for such sins as undermining the language by billing the perry como show in lower-case letters, and subverting the nation by pointing out in Biographies in Sound that George Washington was not perfect. But Helffrich has found that the principal areas of censorship trouble lie in 1) racial hysteria, 2) obvious salaciousness, 3) excessive violence and 4) irresponsible slaps at mental illness...
Sponsored by the Radcliffe Graduate Chapter, Esther Herlitz, consul of Israel in New York, and Fayez Sayegh, deputy director of the Arab States Delegation to the U.N., spoke to a packed audience in the Alumnae Lecture Room at Radcliffe...