Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star-Spangled Banner, President Eisenhower last week drove to tiny (200 students) St. John's College at Annapolis. There, to the students in the line of Key (class of 1796), the President spoke on a subject of absorbing interest to him. There is, he said, no longer any validity in such terms as "foreign affairs" or "foreign policy," but rather, such matters are."essentially local affairs for every nation, including our own." Said Dwight Eisenhower: "The concerns of 'foreign' policy are not something remote and apart from the rest of our activities; they are deeply rooted...
Finally the police-no longer dressed as nuns-moved in. As they arrested Bertele on the street corner, he tried to rub out the k, confessed later at D.S.T. headquarters that a clean k was an all-clear signal, a smudged letter meant danger. The police went to the next rendezvous, inscribed a clear k on the wall, and seized Kazimierz Dopierala, a secretary at the Polish embassy, when he trustingly showed...
...University retirement system is flexible and the Corporation has the option of asking individual instructors to stay on until they reach the age of 70, but no longer. In each case the Corporation's decision is based on the value of the individual to the college. The Corporation assumes responsibility because of the feeling that this would be a difficult job indeed for a dean who has closer personal contacts with the professors. The flexibility of the rules of retirement also extends in the opposite didection allowing any Officers either of Instruction or Administration to retire...
Under the Harvard pension plan, however, the longer a professor remains an active lecturer the larger is his pension. Under the present system, the University contributes 12 1/2 per cent of the professor's yearly salary to a pension fund that is turned over to the professor upon his retirement. Formerly, the professor himself used to put 5 per cent of his salary into the fund, with the University providing the remaining 7 1/2 per cent. As it stands now, the professor actually receives 12 1/2 per cent of his salary annually, while a member of the Faculty...
...problem has been complicated by the fact that people live longer nowadays. In the past, it was expected that a man would not live much past 70, but today youngsters of eighty and ninety have not yet lost their mental keeness. Many emeritus professors still lead full and active lives. If they are not studying or lecturing, they are often traveling or catching up on all the reading they missed while busy teaching. Because of the high cost of scientic experiment, not all retiring professors can be fully accommodated. However, unlike the old soldier, the old scholar refuses to fade...