Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President kept in touch with the problems as well as with the people. He met with Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson and Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and later with the full J.C.S., to hear reports on the Puerto Rico conference on defense planning. Slipping out of the White House one night, he dined with members of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Board, and listened to a briefing on North Atlantic Treaty Organization problems by his old friend and aide, General Alfred Gruenther. Ike added a new meeting to his schedule...
Because he was from a university himself, Malia managed to make many acquaintances at the University. He found that every one was eager to talk, even when they found out he was a foreigner--and an American, at that. They were all curious, anxious to hear about the United States. They even put a premium value on American cigarettes...
More than eighty people braved the storm Friday evening to attend an informal concert of the Composers' Laboratory in Paine Hall. The affair was arranged to provide Laboratory members with a chance to hear their recent works and to test them out on an audience--a necessary step in the development of young composers...
...purely instrumental duo. On the other hand, "Dream" and "Go Seek Her Out," both for soprano, were truly vocal conceptions, the first with a chordal accompaniment for two clarinets and 'cello, and the second with an attractive arpeggiated piano background. It was a welcome relief, furthermore, to hear songs with the text set straight through instead of having the phrases repeated a dozen times. Thrown in for good measure were the four tuneful airs for soprano, violin, flute and 'cello that Addiss wrote for last fall's Eliot House production of The Tempest...
...hear her tell it, a woman teacher's ife is not always a happy one. Only one n ten of those who achieved the rank of ull professor is married; none has children. Though their younger colleagues are more domestic (onefourth of the associate professors and about one-third of the assistant professors are married), they seem to be even less content with their careers. Said one associate professor: "University teaching is still a man's game. All men . . . have a subconscious feeling that you are there on suffrance and ought to be thankful for anything...