Word: confidental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tranquil Buddha. In a modest white palace overlooking the mile-wide Mekong sits worried 67-year-old King Sisavang Vong, afflicted with gout, but refusing all urgings that he leave his capital. Like his Thai people, the King is a fatalist. In the temples his people lay offerings and burn...
Self-confident Hussein means to be King. Recently he made a lightning tour of government offices, snorted: "I saw coffee, newspapers, piled official papers and dirt, but I did not see work and efficient officials, and I shall not allow this thing to go on."
The budget difficulties affect the faculty where it hurts--in the pocket book. Young professors come with no assurance that they will be carried from one June to the next. Assistant Professors are not granted life tenures because the salary money does not exist. Actually the school cannot guarantee positions...
Proof of the pudding is in the eating. And the proof that Harvard has not yet been seriously hurt by budget troubles is the number of qualified students and professors who flock to the school every year. They come with new ideas for experiments--kept current to meet the demands...
Cole thinks the U.S. Government should tell its people more about atomic energy, and feels it could do so without violating security. On the other hand, he vigorously opposes giving any secret atomic information to the allies, even Great Britain, because "they are too lenient with traitors." Confident that the...