Word: landmarks
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Last week, reaching a milestone on its march to academic excellence, Miami University proudly presented its first two Ph.D.s at commencement exercises held in the huge Miami Beach Convention Hall. Another landmark, to come within four years, will be the awarding of the first A.B. to a Negro...
Billed as the most significant such study since the 1908 Aldrich Commission report that conceived the Federal Reserve System, the report of the Commission on Money and Credit is apt to prove far less of a landmark. Where the Aldrich Commission inspired a major reshaping of U.S. banking controls, the new report recommends only minor adjustments...
...years ago, when a fast-breaking, aggressive team of Soviet basketbolisty walloped a U.S. quintet 62-37 in a world amateur tournament in Santiago, Chile, Communists everywhere hailed it as another landmark in Khrushchev's campaign to overtake the U.S. in everything from meat production to widget manufacture. "When it comes to shooting at the moon or at the basket, the U.S. cannot keep up with Russia," trumpeted a leftist Chilean paper. "We won," declared Russian Coach Stepan Spandarian loftily, "because we did what we planned...
...second landmark in Archbishop Fisher's reign is his good-will trip to the orthodox churches of the Middle East and his precedent-shattering visit to the Pope (TIME, Dec. 12). "I pray for an increase in unity of spirit," he had told the congregation of the Anglican Cathedral at Jerusalem, "in the hope that it will pave the way to an even more formal canonical union, which should be the final goal...
...triennial general assembly. He had been invited by California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike to be guest preacher at the pulpit of Grace Cathedral. When he sat down to think out his sermon about six weeks ago, it turned into a preachment that may well be a landmark in Protestant history...