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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...value brought the formation of the Corporation committee. A somewhat more important event came on May 5, 1891, when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--the largest faculty in the University--voted course credit for most summer courses. Up to that time, people took courses for enjoyment or to express altruism toward Harvard professors...
CHILDREN, THE SANDMAN IS COMING. "Do you still believe in storks and peace doves?" queried the Vienna daily Express as Nikita Khrushchev started his visit to Austria. Austrians evidently did not. Simply by cold silence they turned Khrushchev's first good-will tour outside the Iron Curtain since the summit into a road show flop...
Three weeks after the rioting throngs in Tokyo forced the cancellation of President Eisenhower's visit to Japan, one section of the Japanese people got their first chance to express their feelings on 1) how they felt about the new U.S.-Japanese security pact, and 2) Premier Nobusuke Kishi, whose Liberal Democrats had approved it. The vote took place in relatively remote Aomori prefecture, which is coincidentally the site of one of the largest U.S. Air Force bases in Japan. There Liberal Democrat Governor Iwao Yamazaki was running for reelection. His Socialist opponent went all out to argue that...
...forgotten the purpose of the affair. It was billed as a combined mansion warm ing and coming-out ball for Jeanette Constable Maxwell, 17, daughter of a longtime Getty friend. The party drew excellent notices from the press. "Easily the most fabulous evening since the war," burbled London Daily Express Columnist William Hickey, who also hailed it as "good, oldfashioned, vulgar fun." Another waggish Fleet Streeter made a kill joy calculation: the party lasted eight hours and probably cost Getty $30,000 -but in the same period his fortune automatically swelled by an estimated...
...What Hollywood did in the '20s and '30s for the cinema, White City could do in the '60s and '70s for television," trumpeted London's Sunday Express proudly. "White City'' in this context means the British Broadcasting Corp.'s new TV headquarters, and not the nearby White City stadium, where England's eager bettors wager millions on the greyhounds. BBC's half-finished complex of glass and brick is the largest TV factory in the world and even includes a studio that can be flooded to create a lake...