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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite its lack of sufficient scholarship funds, Sarah Lawrence was one of the first colleges to refuse the government loans offered under the National Defense Education Act, because of the attached loyalty affidavit...
From their first evening when Lev Vlasenko, the group's talented pianist, charmed a small Adams House audience with an informal concert, to their last night when the Americans and Russians threw reciprocal parties for each other, the visiting Russians as a whole tried their best to push politics into the background, to avoid any conflicts...
...large, the Russians received a warm welcome in Cambridge, their first real stop in their month-long tour of the Northeastern United States (they landed in New York the day before they arrived in Cambridge), a much warmer welcome than many people thought this generally aloof community would give...
...delegation--eight men and four women--stayed in groups of two at the Business School, Divinity School, Adams House, Kirkland House, Bertram Hall, and Comstock Hall during their stay, and after the first night two or more of them would be taken out to dinner or invited to a home by a different person each night...
...abolishing virtually all import restrictions on trade with the dollar area, the Macmillan government has recorded another major economic advance. The benefits resulting from increased trade and sharpened international cmpetition can now work towards lowering prices. With a favorable trade and dollar balance for the first time in this century, England has been able to lower taxes, stabilize prices, maintain full employment and establish external convertibility of the pound. Last week Britain repaid a quarter of a billion dollar United States loan over five years in advance...