Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, emerged in 1955 as one of the leading U.S.S.R. atomic energy administrators, made headlines at last year's atoms-for-peace conference at Geneva by complaining that the U.S. meant to blast off H-bombs in the guise of atoms for peace; Minister of Higher and Middle Specialized Education Vyacheslav P. Elyutin, 52, a metallurgist, moved on to take over the organization of higher education in the U.S.S.R., says: "Science is the discipline of the 20th century"; Health Specialist Alexander Markov, 58, public health expert, who has since January 1954 headed the Health Ministry department that...
...signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" to their new nation. They evidently foresaw a national purpose beyond survival ("lives'"), beyond mere national interest ("fortunes"), to an assumption by the nation and its citizens of moral restraint and responsibility under an immutable higher law ("sacred honor"). "We live or die as a society, we succeed or fail, with the idea of order and the idea of freedom and the idea of God intertwined," writes Ways. Unless this is recognized in a public philosophy, "we will be sleepwalking with instruments of destruction...
Into the halls of U.S. higher education last week marched an exotic vanguard: 81 African students, including 78 Kenyans -the largest group ever to arrive from the British colony that most Americans know vaguely as the land of the Mau Mau. What the Kenyans knew about the U.S. was more specific: scholarships totaling some $100,000 were sending them to 52 colleges and universities, from Howard to Hawaii. The event was not one to make British colonial officials cheer...
...Kenya's canny Politician Tom Mboya, 28, currently embroiled in a hot fight to expand his native party (see FOREIGN NEWS). When Mboya swept through the U.S. on a speaking tour last spring, he roused support for a stirring project: giving able young Kenyans a crack at higher education. The Royal Technical College of East Africa in Nairobi grants only subuniversity diplomas. Kenyans with a yen for more than a technical degree must go to Uganda's Makerere College, an affiliate of the University of London, or somehow find their way overseas...
CORPORATE GIFTS to higher education last year rose to $137 million from $110 million in 1956. Overall corporate donations to philanthropies hit record $550 million, up from $418 million...