Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff. In pajamas, beige dressing gown and slippers, he padded about the second floor of the White House, later got dressed in slacks and sweater, settled down to work at his easel on a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II's daughter, Princess Anne. He sought and got his doctor's permission to receive a few official visitors-Nixon, Adams, Hagerty and the King of Morocco. He put in a half-hour's formal work on state papers, signed his name a dozen times, his initials once, attended to items that ranged from the month's NATO...
...Physics Professor R. F. Bacher, Harvard's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist E. M. Purcell, University of California's Livermore Laboratory Director Herbert York, Harvard Chemistry Professor George B. Kistiakowsky. The fifth new member, Lieut. General (ret.) James Harold Doolittle, is a notable all-round man -engineer (doctor of science, M.I.T., 1925), topflight air commander in World War II, executive (a director and vice president of Shell Oil Co.). and one of the clearest voices in the field of defense. M.I.T.'s Dr. James R. Killian, who is also a member of the committee, still remains the presidential eyes...
...incident followed an earlier stunt in which the fools staged a mock duel in the Radcliffe quad. The duelists, a judge, a doctor, and six seconds drove up in a black Cadillac limousine. The duelists proceeded to pace off and fire, the resulting roar awakening the girls...
...sexuality and cankering resentments, and the conviction that what has happened is retribution for sin. Seen as a pathological figure, Margaret is valid and often effective. Moreover, the play highlights how abnormal she is by setting her against a blowzy, easygoing neighbor woman and a sane and knowledgeable neighborhood doctor. Yet, even in Siobhan McKenna's severe, unbending portrayal, Margaret seems something other than a dispassionate psychological study. Playwright Wishengrad has identified her with something in life itself, perhaps with something that gnaws at his own insides. He pushes on toward glib and rather grandiose tragedy, toward loud-pedaled...
...Last Bridge. Maria Schell as a German doctor torn between Hitler's legions, to which she belongs, and Tito's partisans, who impress her into their service (TIME, Sept...