Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These conferences bring to the University nationally prominent figures in different career fields who discuss and answer questions concerning their professions. Attendance at these meetings has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous; last year 300 students packed Kirkland House Junior Common Room to hear Robert Anderson '39 and other noted theatre personages discuss careers in entertainment and mass communications. On the other hand, only 25 came to the seminar on Chemical Industry. The large attendance at the theatre conference was attracted by the luminescence of the personalities invited and by the interest in a new theatre for Harvard, while...
...critical reports from Labourites who went to Moscow, continued to stress the need for normal relations with the Soviet state. As Mr. Graubard points out, Labour's initial position as a pariah in domestic politics resembled that of the Bolsheviks in the community of nations. Moreover, they faced a common enemy: "The forces which engineered Khaki elections, and published posters with slogans of 'red menace' attached to gory images, were now involved in creating and ostracizing a foreign 'foe.' The Labour Party's adversary was also Russia's enemy; how sensible, therefore, that the party should be Russia's friend...
...James Atwater tracked down other sources in suburban Connecticut, on the Columbia campus and in Greenwich Village, Researcher Audrey Blodgett and Associate Editor Lester Bernstein, who wrote the cover story, quizzed Van Doren himself. During the interview, Bernstein and Van Doren quickly discovered that they had one thing in common: both are former TIME correspondents in England, the former as a staffer in the London bureau and the latter a stringer at Cambridge...
Pimples & Pustules. Acne, in both boys and girls, is universally associated with an upset hormone balance (male over female hormones) during puberty. (Eunuchs seldom or never have acne.) There is not a shred of evidence for the common belief that acne is a result of masturbation. For some unknown reason, the face, chest and upper back are especially susceptible. There the tiny sebaceous glands, which are designed to secrete fats to oil the skin, become clogged with an abnormally waxy form of these fats. Blackheads and pimples form over the shutdown pores; there may also be pustules, but infection...
...capacity for the first six months of the year.'' Bethlehem Steel reported a 7% earnings rise to $61.7 million in the fourth quarter of 1956, making it the best in its history, and voted a quarterly dividend of 60? a share on its recently split 4-1 common stock, equivalent to $2.40 a share on the old stock, or 10? less than last year. At year's end the company backlog stood at $1.3 billion (v. $862 million the year before), of which $580 million was in shipbuilding orders alone. Bethlehem's shipbuilding division, said Chairman...