Word: following
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to the Desk. Polished, pleasant, hawk-eyed Chris Herter, says a close friend, has never had "that indefinable something that makes dogs and children follow him down the street"-but his recognized abilities were enough to get him narrowly elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1952, and his skilled, if unspectacular, performance was enough to get him overwhelmingly re-elected in 1954. In 1956, his gubernatorial career about to end, Herter became Harold Stassen's unwilling selection for Vice President against Richard Nixon (Herter publicly rebuffed Stassen, himself made a nominating speech for Nixon). Soon after the 1956 elections...
...supply their military outposts in Berlin (the West expects no interference with the flow of civilian goods to West Berlin). "We are resolved," said Dulles, "that our position in and access to West Berlin shall be preserved. We are in general agreement as to the procedures we shall follow if physical means are invoked to interfere with our rights...
...engaged in a great debate on the rule of government in the lives of her citizens. Shall government live within its means; shall our citizens, in a prosperous time, meet the cost of the service they desire of their government? Or is it to be our established policy to follow the ruinous route of free republics of the past ages, the route of deficit financing, of inflation, of taxes ever rising, until all initiative and self-reliant enterprise are destroyed...
...knowledge. A systematic and sustained effort will be made to train students to educate themselves. As freshmen, they will start with seminars especially designed to be the first step, not the last, in independence. Other devices, such as student-led seminars associated with all lecture courses, will all follow to reinforce this initial experience...
...process may be viewed with some alarm, but the spirit of the age seems to dictate that Radcliffe gain "equal rights" with Harvard. Merged activities, proposed tutorial changes, women on the CRIMSON Editorial Board, all hint at the new regime, and more should follow. Among the most valuable experiments arising from this trend toward the triumph of the 'Cliffe is the system instituted recently at Comstock Hall. A "graduate school couple" was installed as head residents instead of the venerable "house mother...