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March. Seventy-three per cent of the next freshman class (Class of '62) will be graduates of private preparatory schools. The Committee on Admissions will deny any bias. They will announce, "We have nothing against wonks, other things being equal." An enraged Joseph Kennedy (John's father) will confirm reports that he is going to "buy Harvard College for my boys." Rev. Buttrick will urge President Pusey to go gold hunting in South America to strengthen Harvard's financial position. Rev. Buttrick will offer to accompany the President and allow him to use his new gold-divining rod. Ex-Dean...
...confirm the support of our governments for the independence and sovereignty of the states of [the Middle East] and our interest in the economic well-being of their peoples. We express our interest in the maintenance of peace and the development of conditions of stability and economic and political well-being in the vitally important Continent of Africa . . . Historic, economic and other friendly ties between certain European countries and Africa would make such cooperation particularly desirable and effective...
...American Medical Association refused to confirm this theory...
Thomas Gold, professor of Astronomy, states that the telescope, equipped with the new amplifier, should provide a test of cosmological theories such as the theory of the expanding universe and be able to confirm or deny the existence of hydrogen gas between the galaxies...
...Eisenhower's Washington there appears to be a lack of immediacy, a thick-skinned obliviousness to time and urgent demands for leadership. Stevenson was unsure, after a conference with the President, whether he had been invited to Paris or not. Press Secretary Hagerty had to confirm the fact. The President seemed unaware of any partisan pressure on Stevenson, or, for that matter, any real necessity for decision...