Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...match its excellent technical schools. Oakland has the plant and the men for a good start. Most of the sweeping 2,000-acre campus was given to M.S.U. two years ago by the widow of Auto Tycoon John Dodge and her husband, Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson. Value of the land and the 125-room Wilson mansion: about $15 million. When the Wilsons added another $2,000,000 to the gift, astute M.S.U. President John Hannah appointed Vice President Durward B. Varner, 42, as chancellor and gave him the job of turning Oakland into a dream college. Varner recruited...
Times. His version: 451 native Kenyans are pursuing higher education this year on government scholarships-79 at the Royal Technical College. 325 at Makerere College, 45 in Britain, two in Canada. Countered Tom Mboya: the statistics, in a land with an African population of 6,000,000, "are an indictment of British attitudes toward African education...
...Sources, 17 Reports. Government officials were uniformly unhelpful. Not that they did not try-in a land with little or no communications, they were merely uninformed. When one freshly arrived newsman asked Defense Minister Sounthone Pathammavong for a quick briefing on the situation, the minister shot him an injured look, plaintively asked: "Can you tell me?" In Samneua, Brigadier General Amkha Soukhavong blithely informed reporters that "only about 20% of our troops are missing"-only to be just as blithely contradicted by Lieut. General Ouane Rathikone, chief of staff: "All our men were either killed or taken prisoner...
...studio is a small, skylit shed set amid four tranquil acres of Hertfordshire farm land, an hour north of London. Inside, workbenches are covered with old bones, sticks, water-smoothed pebbles, shells from the English coast and the Riviera sands. On the walls are curious drawings in pencil or in sallow greens, yellows and reds-disturbing, faceless human forms composed of lines, curves, shadows and holes...
...answer a prime question: When will the U.S. have another recession? They have little doubt that a slowdown will come. "One of the outstanding facts of the postwar economy is the re-emergence of the classic business cycle," says Presidential Economic Adviser Don Paarlberg. Other economists throughout the land are in surprising agreement that business will boom into 1960, slump somewhat...