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In his nine years as chancellor of the University of Chicago, Lawrence A. Kimpton, 49, has had to tame a particularly unruly section of the Midwest. He has hacked down slums that were hemming in Chicago's campus, trimmed overblown courses that were smothering the curriculum. Last week he...
By 1938, when he formed his Popular Democratic Party and ran for the island Senate, Muñoz had decided that "status is not the issue." To the jíbaros, the country men, he promised labor laws and land reform instead of independence. He urged voters to "lend me...
DOLITTLE would have loved the do-little 85th Congress, First Session. Domestic necessity pushed the 85th, after much hemming and hawing, into passing the first U.S. civil rights bill since Reconstruction. International tension pulled it, after much doodling and dawdling, into approving President Eisenhower's Middle East doctrine. Beyond...
Among the many books that took the long view on man's past and his future, two raised enough big questions to keep the cracker-barrel set busy all winter. In a casually lofty historical essay, The World and the West, Historian Arnold Toynbee suggested that faithless Western man...
¶ Sent Congress the third of his reorganization plans, a proposal to streamline the complex and far-flung mobilization agencies, bring them together in a central, permanent Office of Defense Mobilization, and nominated Arthur S. Hemming as director of the present ODM. Under the new plan, the Munitions Board and...