Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winners, the graduate schools they will attend, and their fields of study are Arnold M. Goldman '57, of Adams House and Swampscott, Mass., English at Princeton; Frank R. Safford '57, of Eliot House and El Paso, Texas, U.S. History at Columbia; Michael D. Tanzer '57, of Leverett House and New York City, Economics at MIT; and David S. Wiesen '57, of Lowell House and New York City, Classical Philosophy at Princeton...
Evans felt that Oppenheimer was "once the most powerful man in the world," and warned that his "current rehabilitation" by such institutions as Columbia, Harvard, and CBS might "make him again the most powerful man in America...
...Foundation grant of $800,000 to the University of Chicago will support the inter-university program for visiting scholars from Asia and the Near East which was set up about a month ago. Chicago, Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard are conducting the program together...
Meeting in Seattle last week, the Northwest Public Power Association saw the only solution in a Columbia River regional authority that could coordinate and finance both public and private projects in long-term development. "The hydroelectric power potentialities of the Columbia Basin are less than a third realized," said Major General Walter K. Wilson Jr., Army Engineers deputy chief of construction. Said Association President Peter C. Spowart of publicly owned Seattle City Light: "Private utilities can hardly be expected to support an effort beyond their own power requirements. Only a regionwide, publicly owned agency can absorb these costs...
Hyman Marcus is a fast-talking former math teacher and Phi Beta Kappa man (Columbia) who in three years transformed a shaky manufacturer of laundry machines into a corporate complex grossing more than $90 million. In late 1953 he bought his way into U.S. Hoffman Machinery Corp., an oldtime concern with $13 million in debts, shored up its tottering finances, became president in 1954. By trading stock in the Hoffman Corp., he acquired 23 profitable subsidiaries, manufacturing everything from candy to tin cans. But somewhere along the line, Hyman Marcus' magic touch began to fail. Day after...