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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JOSHUA L. BAILY JR. La Jolla, Calif...
Though Richardson was later ordered reinstated by the State Supreme Court, his case snowballed. Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox Bow Incident) accused the administration of "seeking to reduce the university to a manageable mediocrity," handed in his resignation as a lecturer in English. Economist Arthur L. Grey Jr. declared that the university was "in full retreat" from democracy, and Biologist Thomas Little resigned after accusing Stout of granting faculty raises on the basis of "favoritism...
...catheter (flexible tube) and worked through a blood vessel right into the heart. Developed by New Jersey's Gulton Industries, Inc., the microphone is one-twentieth of an inch in diameter, three-quarters of an inch long. Dr. Howard L. Moscovitz of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital has used it to diagnose heart defects-by placing it next to heart valves and in the great vessels, and listening to the distinctive sounds. t| To help get crippled arthritics mobile again, the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation started sending out mobile rehabilitation units in 16 states. Station wagons or panel...
Believing that Harvard could achieve unity in social life as well as in athletic endeavor, Major Henry L. Higginson, donor of Soldier's Field, granted a $150,000 financial bedrock for a building where "pride of wealth, pride of poverty, and pride of class would find no place." Choosing a site proved the initial trial to Harvard democracy; Gold Coasters pressured for a Massachusetts Avenue site, while Yard dwellers suggested a lot near Memorial Hall. In a gesture of compromise, the building was erected on Quincy Street, a four-minute walk for both rich and poor. The Harvard Union...
...record of the Atomic Energy Committee under the chairmanship of Admiral Lewis L. Strauss has been anything but distinguished. The most publicized mishaps, the Oppenheimer case and the Dixon-Yates contract, have been only surface indications of Strauss' maladministration. Strauss, who has shown little belief in the Eisenhower theory of delegation of authority, has increasingly preempted the powers of the AEC to himself...