Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this age of sound trucks and stickers, it is unlikely that many in Cambridge will be entirely unaware by Tuesday that an election campaign is going on. But it seems even more unlikely that many people will have much idea of the issues of the 1959 campaign. Even those people actively involved in the campaign might be hard-pressed to tell you what issues are involved, and if there are unexpected surprises in the outcome, it will be still hard to tell what policy has triumphed...
...attract outside help in salvaging and preserving works in the area, the Egyptian government has offered liberal terms, even allowing the removal of several complete temples for reconstruction elsewhere...
Harvard has the highest pay scale in the entire Ivy League, perhaps even in the nation. For example, unskilled laborers receive $1.35 per hour plus certain free meals here; at Columbia, the comparable hourly rate in $1.05. In addition, the Harvard pay scale is based upon a 40-hour week, while Yale, which pays the second-highest wages among these schools, goes on the basis of a 48-hour week...
...international scene NSA provides scholarships through the World University Service for student leaders from other countries and organizes exchange visits. Perhaps even more significant than these activities is the role NSA assumes in the International Student Conference (ISC). The future leaders of especially the underdeveloped nations are often active in their student associations, and these associations are often active in politics. NSA has a unique chance to communicate with these students and through its resolutions of policy demonstrate that Americans are aware of their problems and sympathetic to their aspirations...
...route around: Gaining experience in Munich through study and by work for a few weeks "with a second-rate opera company, one which traveled from village to village presenting operas." As recipient of the Paine Traveling Fellowship in Music during 1958-59, he studied at the Munich Conservatory--and even gained an offer of a job conducting an orchestra for Siemens Electric, "the General Electric of Germany...