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Newly elected trustees on the high-level board are Chancellor Harvie Brans-comb of Vanderbilt University and President James R. Killian, Jr. of M.I.T. They will fill vacancies created by the retirement from university presidencies of Oliver C. Carmichael of the University of Alabama and Harold W. Dodds of Princeton...
...then, with a sense of high purpose--as well as a touch for the bizarre--that the first of two similar proposals for establishing new colleges came before the Faculty. Originally mentioned "to stimulate thinking" in a high-level conference with a foundation executive, the idea that Harvard should found a "colony college" met with initial enthusiam. As conceived by its imaginative sponsors, "Harvard in Houston" would be a good way for the University to discharge any obligation it might feel to expand, while maintaining and improving its existing facilities in Cambridge. The vision, they...
...throwing dust in all directions; e.g., at week's end, almost as if there had been no Budapest, no threat of desert war, the Russians proposed a new disarmament plan, which they couched in boasts that they could sweep across Western Europe-and punctuated by a new high-level A-bomb test...
...needed hot cakes"), wound up covering the Spanish civil war for the Detroit News. In World War II, as a major in the Army historical section, he went to the Pacific to cover the invasion of Makin Island in 1943. At first he used the conventional approach: copying high-level records, talking to the brass, touring the front. He learned little. Even on the battlefield, fable was rapidly substituted for fact...
...cheers in the crowd of 5,000. In a week when the Eisenhower tide was rising (see below) and Stevenson was searching determinedly for a big issue, the H-bomb argument seemed to be striking fire-far more so than his proposal to end the draft. Result: a high-level Stevenson campaign decision to play the hydrogen-bomb proposal for all it was worth-beginning with a national television speech this week...