Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giving a Push. Predictably, this display of weakness in Paris only served to spur Algiers to new assaults. Late in the week, abandoning all attempts to keep open a line of diplomatic retreat, insurgent leaders took a public pledge not to submit to Paris until De Gaulle governed France. The rebels seemed to have all the initiative and unity. Without risking an invasion of the French mainland, they could set off troubles, as in Corsica. And in Tunisia, violent fighting broke out between Tunisian army units and the garrison at Remada, one of the ten bases France still holds...
...finding his way around outer space, German-born Missileman Willy Ley got out of orbit on the New Jersey seaside. Invited to address a dental society meeting in Atlantic City, Scientist Ley arrived four hours late, explained that he had circled for an hour in Asbury Park (65 miles away) before being set on course...
...Endowed chairs in physical science paying some $20,000 a year will be established at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and M.I.T. under terms of $500,000 grants made to each university last week by the Donner Foundation, set up in 1932 by the late William H. Donner (of Buffalo's Donner Steel Co.). The professorships will be the highest paying at Pennsylvania and M.I.T., and among the highest at the other three...
Playing Hooky. Elaine, born in Philadelphia, is the daughter of Yiddish Actor Jack Berlin. She began by playing little boys in Yiddish plays, later quit high school in Los Angeles and studied acting with the late Maria Ouspenskaya. To eat, she picked up such odd jobs as private detective, spieler for a sidewalk photographer. Then she heard "you could go to the University of Chicago without going to high school...
...easier to discuss, for it is much better. His humorous poems are truly funny rather than merely ingenious, the kind of humor at which we laugh without thinking first. His more serious offering, "Storm in Equinox," is one of the best things to come out of South Street of late. Gabrielle Ladd, a Wellesley senior, is the third poet, although her relationship to the Advocate is elusive...