Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer is not as evident as it may seem. It is a fact that until two years ago, the language departments at Harvard had allowed themselves to stagnate simply because, as Edward Geary, coordinator of Languages puts it, "no one had ever taken the trouble before." But besides this obvious answer, there is one other somewhat nebulous reason for the college's emphasis on old systems. Harvard's approach to language teaching has always been on the "literary" level. That is to say, when a professor was teaching a class how to speak French, he was really teaching his students...
...scientist hammered hardest at ex-AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss (now Secretary of Commerce) and ex-AEC Consultant Edward Teller. Strauss and Teller, said the Science Advisory Committee spokesman, are "radicals . . . extremists of one viewpoint." He stressed the point that the Science Advisory Committee's now dominant voices, e.g., Killian, Columbia University's Dr. I. I. Rabi, base their stop-the-tests stand on purely technical, nonpolitical grounds. But he went on to say that Science Advisory Committee members feel that test stoppage, all science aside, will bring the "reduction of tensions," and "hope of a world that does...
...Justice Department won a major battle in its antimerger campaign. In Manhattan's U.S. district court last week, Judge Edward Weinfeld banned the merger of Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube, one of the biggest deals in industrial history. It was the first court test of a Government suit under the Clayton Antitrust Act since it was amended in 1950 to make it tougher...
...first team included: Norman Juvonen (E), Cornell; Barney Berlinger (E), Penn; Robert Shaunessy (T), Harvard; Edward Savitsky (T), Cornell; and Alvin Krutsch (G), Dartmouth; Joseph DeDeo (G), Princeton; Donald Warburton (C), Brown; Frank Finney (QB), Brown; John Crouthamel (HB), Dartmouth; John Heyd (HB), Princeton; and Paul Choquette (FB), Brown...
...thousand saloonkeepers lifted grateful faces in Atlantic City last week to hear a good word from a minister. The Rev. John Fuller Mangrum, 36, of St. Edward's Episcopal Church in Mount Dora, Fla., told the ninth annual convention of the National Licensed Beverage Association that they should not tolerate being treated as "second-class human beings" by churches in the grip of "puritanism...