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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want my President to call [the Russian] bluff." But for the most part Dwight Eisenhower seemed impressed, asked Gore to submit his proposals in a formal memorandum. Gore did, also talked over his ideas with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and new AEC Chairman John McCone. Under close examination, flaws might appear in Albert Gore's plan, but at least it had the merit of suggesting a way out of an otherwise bitter, abrasive impasse on the question of test suspension...
With the state's "massive resistance" laws ready to topple in the courts and with powerful Virginia editors looking for a way out (TIME, Nov. 24), able Lawyer Almond came close to admitting that Virginia might have to come up with a local-option school plan. Only two days before his news conference, Almond and Virginia had got a vaccination against the infection they feared. In Norfolk (pop. 314,600), where 10,000 pupils are still locked out, voters decided 12,333 to 8,781 against petitioning Almond to return their schools to local control, thus let them open...
John U. Munro, who will replace Delmar Leighton as Dean of Harvard College, has been on the firing line long enough to assure an easy transition from the old to the new regimes. Munro's experience as Director of the Financial Aid Office has brought him in close touch with many of the student problems he will now have to meet head-on. It is too early to indulge in predictions about the new Dean's performance, but his background and abilities well qualify him to cope with one of the most trying posts in the University...
...important parts of a flashlight are the battery and the bulb. When we "turn on" a flashlight, we close a switch which connects the battery with the (bulb...
...against, it is no reflection on director Otto Ashermann that he was unable to create the paradoxical air of consistent and genuine artificiality that this sort of comedy demands. Dee French as the richest woman in the world and Judy O'Keeffe as her ward, Felicity, comes close to catching the requisite style. The rest of the actors make it clear that in its casting, as in its choice of plays, the Poets' Theatre must perforce be content to do what it can and not what it might wish...