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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theories have remained nearly constant since his early Senate days, it took years-and personal tragedy-for him to arrive at his present foreign-policy views. He tended toward the isolationist side (although, as in all things, he was far too moderate to rank alongside the Burton K. Wheelers and the Gerald Nyes), he supported the neutrality laws, and argued eloquently against any U.S. participation in Europe's affairs...
...highly visionary College of Europe. The college was born at the 1948 Congress of Europe in The Hague. There, Salvador de Madariaga, onetime Spanish Ambassador to the U.S., suggested that a special school be set up for the study of continental unification. A Flemish Franciscan, Anton K. Verleye, seconded the motion, moved that the school be located in Bruges ("There is a European spirit in the very stones of this city"). In 1949 an experimental, three-week course began; in 1950 its founders decided to expand the school, picked Dutchman Hendrik Brugmans, professor of French literature at the State University...
...Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe, yesterday announced the appointment of Dudley Meek as director of Radcliffe's Management Training Program. Meek, who was previously vice-president and treasurer of the text-book department of Harcourt, Brace and Company, will also be a member of the faculty of the Harvard Business School. He succeeds T. North Whitehead, who will retire in June...
...bona fide artists, scientists and priests could not speak English, the official conference language, but the delegations from Moscow, Peking and the other Communist capitals were all big coveys of English-speaking propagandists, each ready to spout like shaken-up soda pop the moment the meeting opened. S. K. Patil came in from Bombay with his Congress delegation, took one look at the Red assemblage and withdrew in anger. "It is just another front organization with the Communists running the whole show," he snorted. Questioned about it in Parliament, Prime Minister Nehru sharply withheld his endorsement from the meeting...
...that they stop right there. Only a few persist and become slaves to the drugs. Why the difference? Three researchers at Harvard Medical School suspected that to become an addict, an individual needs not only persistence but a basic predisposition. Drs. John M. von Felsinger, Louis Lasagna and Henry K. Beecher ran careful tests with 20 young men. The results, reported in the A.M.A. Journal, support their theory...