Word: disbands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff and students of Harvard's AFROTC bitterly criticized the Air Force yesterday for its decision to disband the unit...
...University of Illinois, President H. Gordon Hullfish of the Public Education Association met with his vice president and solemnly recommended that the P.E.A. disband. In itsheyday in the '50's, it had been a powerful influence on U.S. public education, the standard-bearer for the child-centered school, the soapbox and sounding board for the ideas of John Dewey and his followers. But now, plagued by lack of money and members-as well as by changing educational fashions-the P.E.A. was in effect admitting that, though the nation had gratefully accepted much of what the progressives preached...
...autonomous bodies which do not take their orders from any foreign power. If this is so, then China would have nothing to lose and would gain immeasurably with all of us in prestige by publicly and formally calling upon the local Communist groups throughout Asia and Africa to disband. This reassuring gesture from Peking has not been forthcoming, and I for one am perturbed about...
...British army will disband eight infantry battalions (extra ones created during the Korean crisis), largely because it is not getting enough recruits to man them. Tactics and weapons will be revamped, in the light of experience gained in atomic maneuvers in West Germany...
Although Saltonstall is running against a candidate with a better voting record, his stolid dignity points up the politicking of his opponent. Furcolo can only be censured for his speech before the ADA last spring in which he advised the group to disband. Both candidates, indeed, could be criticized for not taking a stand against McCarthy. But while a man may be measured by these standards, a politician should not be. If Saltonstall had an equally good legislative record, he would be the better candidate. But a voter makes his choice on the basis of policy, not personalities. On such...