Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that all's fair in the fight against Communism. Oppenheimer's friends say he symbolizes freedom of thought and that his acts are prompted by his loving regard for the long-range interests of humanity. In short, the defenders of each man say that he obeys a "higher law." Admittedly, the lines of permissible freedom are hard to draw in the areas where McCarthy and Oppenheimer operate. But the lines must be drawn. President Eisenhower's defense of executive-branch rights is necessary because McCarthy's operation, if unchecked, would paralyze the Administration. Gordon Gray...
...grants by big business to higher education: "Many of the liberal-arts colleges ought to be closed up. Business, by giving indiscriminate support to all of them, perpetuates bad colleges...
...outside Philadelphia, decided that the hit-and-run Commencement speaker was too far removed from his audience. They invited their man to spend a week on the campus, living and arguing with undergraduates. They picked a lively companion: Robert Maynard Hutchins, brisk but aging (55) boy wonder of U.S. higher education, onetime chancellor of the University of Chicago, now president of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic...
Citation: "A man imbued with the ideals of his Christian faith, deeply interested in Christian higher education, and prominent as an exemplar of Catholic principles in public and family life...
...Wall Streeters have spent the last nine months measuring the stock market. To many, the market has seemed a freak: it started to rise just when business began to contract last fall, now towers above anything seen since 1929. Since September, the Dow-Jones industrial average has pushed 25% higher almost without pause, last week rose to a new high of 328.67 before shading off. What made the giant grow? Is there a giant killer lurking around the corner...