Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joint letter to President Eisenhower last week, six Democratic Congressmen urged him to consider a summit meeting with Russia. The horrors of nuclear warfare, they wrote, make the attempt worthwhile. The six: Minnesota's Eugene J. McCarthy, Montana's Lee Metcalf, Wisconsin's Henry S. Reuss, Pennsylvania's George M. Rhodes, California's James Roosevelt, New Jersey's Frank Thompson...
...Science begins with the wide-eyed wonder of the nursery," J. Allen Hynek, Associate Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, said in a letter to the Boston Herald yesterday...
...case of Nathan Leopold, participant in the sensational Loeb-Leopold murder of 1923, comes before the Illinois Parole Board this January. Last year, Leopold's parole was granted, only to be vetoed by Governor William J. Stratton. The explanation for Stratton's refusal to parole Leopold was that it is politically inexpedient; public antipathy to his release is believed to be great...
...Committee on Admissions has not always been limited to taking a mere handful of transfers. Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions, himself a transfer into Harvard, notes that "not too long ago, the one-year senior, the person who transfered to get a Harvard degree, was quite common." In the late 1940's the College took about 100 transfer students a year...
...collection, no less fine for its subdued key. So grotesque an aesthetic faux paus as the acquisitions of the William Randolph Hearst dynasty, or even as sincere but visionless an affair as the John Ringling Museum testifies to how far wrong the best intentioned affluence can go. But J. Pierpont Morgan, caring not at all for magnitude, sought quality alone...