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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just when the furor had died down, the University appointed former track captain and coach William J. Bingham '16 as the first athlete director "His will be a general supervision of University athletics. The job is impossible to describe, since there is no precedent for comparison," the CRIMSON claimed, and then they raised the price of student tickets to the Yale and Princeton to $2.00. There were few complaints, and then Bingham announced his "athletics for all" program, stressing greater cooperation among various coaches...
Historian Marshall is at the top of his technique in The River and the Gauntlet, and his official account of the defeat of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea by the Chinese in November 1950 bears comparison with anything written about Americans in war. Marshall makes some things clear that will have many a U.S. reader trembling. Here was a whole modern army on the move caught completely by surprise, its units scattered, its communications faulty, its foremost elements short of ammunition to fight off a primitive army that could move only at night and on foot. How it happened...
...article, written by George Putnam, Jr. '49, and labelled "Sound Investing: A Brief Comparison of the Financial Policies of Five Eastern Universities," campares the investment set-ups at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and M.I.T...
Waiting for Trouble. By comparison, Feisal's Iraq (175,000 sq. mi.) is a land of promise. It has resources (an oil reserve of five billion barrels), money ($112 million in oil royalties annually), inherently fertile soil and plenty of water for irrigation. Nevertheless, 90% of its 5,000,000 inhabitants are illiterate, and most of the farms are in the hands of usurious absentee landlords. Communist agitators and nationalist fanatics are riding high...
...only fair comparison, though, is a statistical one, and since Eisenhower has only had three months to play, the contrast must be with the first three months after Truman's inauguration...