Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student is "taught" in the sense that his responses to certain problems and situations are guided and formed by the machines. The actual machines are simple. They consist of a small control box, something like the transformer of a toy electric railroad, with buttons that advance, hold or return verbal information. This information, called the program, is printed on disks, tapes or cards. One frame, or question-answer unit, appears to the student at a time...
Radcliffe's Community Service Committee will hold its annual fund drive Monday through Wednesday of next week, D. Robin Hull '60, co-chairman, announced yesterday...
...description of the plot makes it sound melodramatic, which it is. The unlikelieness of her meeting the sergeant again, and the often unrealistic tenor of the dialogue, in which peasant women tend to talk in profound concepts of duty, etc., when isolated seem corny. But the situation can hold the actors in such a tension of dramatic excellence, and the film as a visual whole exerts such a physical impact, that the inherent melodrama and sentimentality blur into unimportance...
...most exposed outpost in Europe set off a flurry of excited headlines. Western diplomats had been expecting some kind of trouble over Berlin. Four days before, at a press conference, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had taken pains to be explicit: "We are most solemnly committed to hold West Berlin-if need be, by military force." London, Paris and Bonn were just as forthright. In West Berlin, citizens inured to crises went their rounds unflustered...
Carrots v. Stick. At first, the nationalists appeared to accept the contracts. Frondizi in turn went out of his way to be nice to Peronistas, granting them amnesty, restoring confiscated property, allowing them to hold control of the labor movement under a plan drawn up by his Economic and ' Social Affairs Secretary, Rogelio Frigerio. A few rumbles came from within the Radical Party, notably from Frondizi's Vice President. Alejandro Gomez, but they sounded minor...