Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Named Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, Ethel Merman has "the proudest and happiest day of my life." Master Chalmers begins a charmingly scholastic discussion about the meaning of "substantial" by writing that it "obviously must remain a relative term until the Dean has at least some idea of how many letters he will receive." Dean Monro replies that he will neither count letters nor define the word, and hints that Harvard may want to eliminate all student choice in the assignment process, anyway...
President Pusey and Dean Monro support a draft exam, and the Selective Service System says that's precisely what it has in mind. The HUC reports that 12 colleges enthusiastically favor an exchange program with Harvard. "It doesn't seem to make very good sense," Pusey says of the idea...
Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., LL.D., director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. A future historian will probably write that the Peace Corps was the one creative idea of the twentieth century...
...have landed jobs through the fair, and hundreds more have made contacts-which is at the very least a good start. Of those hired 48% are Negroes, 27% Mexican-and Spanish-Americans and 9% Orientals. Said CBS Radio Vice President Jules Dundes, co-organizer of the fair: "The idea is simple and workable. I can only hope it will be adopted by chambers of commerce of all other cities...
...hysteria. This seasonable breach of security is well worth the risks, though, and an obligatory nod to young love turns out surprisingly well, mostly because John Phillip Law, as a tense Russian sailor, and blonde Movie Newcomer Andrea Dromm, as an amiable babysitter, make coexistence look like their own idea...