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...Beta Kappa was originally founded in 1776 at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. Three years later Elisha Parmele, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1778, secured charters to extend the society to both Harvard and Yale. Finally on September 5, 1781, the Alpha of Massachusetts was founded in Cambridge and has since had an uninterrupted existence--unlike the Yale, which was inactive from 1871 to 1884--of 175 years...
...which underwrites 60% of the national research effort, also tends to emphasize practical rather than theoretical value. At least 93% of Government research money placed with industry goes for specific projects; $4 of every $5 in Government research grants to universities also specify applied research. Says Whirlpool-Seeger President Elisha Gray II: "The paucity of support for basic research could be our Achilles' heel...
Actress Marie Windsor and Actor Elisha Cook, however, outdistance the field with ease in what might be called their obscenes of married life. And the camera watches them, watches the whole shoddy show with the keen eye of a terrier stalking a pack of rats...
...months of his second term as governor of Alabama, moose-tall (6 ft. 8 in.) James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom has striven to the limit of his limited talent to keep the peace between the races. He opposed or vetoed almost all the racist state legislature's anti-Negro bills; he criticized the spreading White Citizens' Councils. Last January he termed the legislature's resolution of nullification "nothing but hogwash," but he let the resolution pass without his signature so as to avoid an uproar...
...before the members of the American Newspaper Publishers Association meeting in Manhattan last week stepped Elisha Hanson, the A.N.P.A.'s general counsel. "I have the unpleasant duty to inform you," he said, "that the Department of Justice is about to initiate an antitrust action against the A.N.P.A., charging it with having conspired not only with other trade-association groups but with its own members . . . unreasonably to restrain trade in advertising...