Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mention of the Vice President's name drew storms of applause. A huge photomural of Dick Nixon's face (flanked by the images of Dwight Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln) stared fixedly down at the challenger. Rockefeller's speeches drew respectful attention, but they were not much help. For his themes, Rocky stuck to above-it-all international problems, and his formal speeches were so high-flown, as Scripps-Howard Correspondent Albert M. Colegrove reported, that they "orbited right over the heads of his audience." (Sample: "The concept of the self-sufficient nation-state cannot be the essential...
...succeeded over the years in transforming its local image from stone-hearted colossus to soft-hearted rich uncle. In Vernon, Texas, where his office was, Anderson headed fund-raising drives, got each drive off to a fast start by contributing a chunk of Waggoner funds. With Anderson's help, Vernon got a $1,000,000 Methodist church, a municipal auditorium, a recreation hall for teenagers, a Boy Scout camp...
...policy implications of these two propositions run in opposite directions: Proposition No. 1 suggests that the U.S. should give more help to the underdeveloped countries. Proposition No. 2 suggests that the U.S. cannot afford to give more, perhaps ought to give less. To resolve this clash of directions is the challenge of U.S. foreign economic policy, and the task that Robert Anderson has set for himself...
...December, results of this survey will be fully tabulated and then analyzed. Recommendations based upon these findings will be utilized this spring to help reduce the potential $150,000 dining hall deficit...
Polls taken in four House dining halls will help determine possible money-saving methods of serving food next term. For four days last week, students employed by Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, tabulated the amount of food students put on their trays...