Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Washington, a twelve-nation conference at last got around to approving a charter for the agency that will run the atoms-for-peace program. The Russians dropped their 1½-year-old insistence that it come under the U.N. Security Council, where they hold a veto. The Indians stopped haggling about the rights of have-not nations when the U.S. and Russia agreed that the agency should submit reports to the 76-nation U.N. General Assembly. The twelve countries agreed that the agency should receive, regulate and distribute fissionable materials, as the President had proposed back...
...hold Tibet firmly," goes an old Tibetan saying, "the conqueror must win Potala's top floor." Potala is the 500-ft.-high, 1,400-room Lhasa stronghold of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's powerful temporal ruler, and the top floor is the Lama's private residence. Since Red China "liberated" Tibet in 1951, hundreds of Chinese officials have been popping in and out of Potala's top floor, wooing the 21-year-old Dalai Lama with flattery and gifts (among them: ten autos, a direct phone to Peking), and isolating him from his own countrymen...
...research on the part of Faculty members, and there is the danger that teaching and student-faculty contacts will suffer as a result. This is a very serious threat, especially so in a Department which has as few Faculty members as the Department of Astronomy, where only five now hold permanent posts. There are, of course, many lecturers and research associates, but their teaching contributions vary widely...
Someone absent from the Harvard scene since 1953-54 would be astonished at the change in attitude toward drama. How would be compelled to ask. "What caused this change?" In 1953 if he had been told that dramatics would hold a dominant position in the University in 1956, he would have said this would only be possible with a Harvard Theatre. The reasons for the turnabout in attitudes is not readibly explainable. Walter Kerr of the New York Herald-Tribune points to the recent surge of dramatic activity throughout the country as being based on a "removal of political suppression...
Died. "Little Jack" Little, 55, radio star of the '30s, and composer (A Shanty in Old Shanty Town, Jealous, Hold Me); apparently after an overdose of sleeping pills; in Hollywood...