Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the golden autumn of the 14th year after World War II, all Europe was humming with a new prosperity. In Britain, where voters had just emphatically endorsed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's claim that they never had been so well off, the government this week planned to improve...
Last week the rectors of West Germany's universities, which still recognize East German degrees, gave notice that soon they may give up. Sternly, the rectors rejected invitations to join Leipzig's birthday celebration, which to them seemed only a wake. Leipzig's rector, a complaisant agriculturist...
Some reduction of suite capacity took place over the summer, but not enough to provide the "one study-bedroom per student" ideal proposed last spring. Further deconversion will be necessary, certainly, in Mather Hall, which becomes part of Quincy House next year. Either Mather is deconverted and becomes more attractive...
Major Hubert Matos, a leader of the Castro Revolution, was imprisoned shortly after submitting a letter of resignation to Premier Fidel Castro. Matos charged that the revolution had not fulfilled its program, and further complained that the Communists had infiltrated the government.
In this light, the disenchantment of Matos is understandable. As the Castro government continues to develop into rule by personal fiat, it moves further and further from its earlier liberalism. In more than nine months of life, the revolutionary government has hardly begun to fulfill its initial promises, and Dr...