Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same day in India, where Ike had gone to fulfill a "cherished wish" and to "do a little bit of personal discovery," was the most stupefying mob scene since the death of Gandhi. It was getting dark as Eisenhower, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President Rajendra Prasad began the drive from the New Delhi airport into the city. From villages and country valleys and the city itself had come more than a million people, who had heard about the visit from radios, newspapers and village criers. In bullock carts, buses and trucks (supplied by the government and private businesses...
...pile of campaign planks. It lays down a hard line against President Eisenhower's personal peace campaign ("Good-will tours are an inadequate substitute for solid policies"), attacks Administration defense policy ("The Republicans believe money to be more important than military security"), calls for a full-speed drive into space. It slams the anti-inflation policy ("Age-old affinity for the moneyed interests"), scores the prolonged steel strike ("A failure in executive leadership"), calls for prosperity for farmers ("The social institutions of many of our rural communities ... are withering under the deepening pall of agricultural depression...
...wanted to go to Mississippi all along," said Quarterback Perry Lee Dunn. "But I wanted to be sure. I'm glad it's over-I thought the pressure the last two weeks would drive me crazy. I haven't studied a lick the whole time." By week's end, Perry Lee was already talking like a Mississippi man, sniffed scornfully at top-ranked Syracuse: "Ole Miss could take them-they're just a bunch of fat boys...
...past three years, Harvard University has diligently appealed to its alumni in a well-planned drive to raise $82.5 million. Purpose: a lavish refurbishing of Harvard College (TIME, Nov. 26, 1956). Last month, still about $10 million short of the goal, Harvard went back to wealthy alumni who had already given. Last week the results were announced: out of deep pockets in three weeks flowed 18 six-figure gifts totaling $3,100,000, to boost the pledges to $75 million. No sooner had the word been issued than other Harvard-men jumped in to help raise the remaining...
...still not enough, and Case agreed. But when the teachers demanded another 10% raise this fall, he had to turn it down. Bard was still in the red. The teachers would have to wait for next year's drive to raise $2,900,000, one-third earmarked for faculty salaries. President Case knew full well what his decision might mean: the militant local chapter of the American Association of University Professors threatened a vote of no-confidence in the president. "I defend this right of theirs," said he, and awaited results. Last week they came...