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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hasty Pudding Institute of 1776 agreed yesterday to put its facilities at the disposal of the University Health Services. The first floor main hall of the Pudding building will be converted into a third Asian Flu infirmary center when Stillman and the 47-bed Freshmen Union infirmary have been filled...
...main difference between the two countries was in the aftermaths. In Honduras the junta leader declared his task ended, announced that he was taking a long vacation. But in Haiti the junta had to call out troops to smash a storekeepers' strike inspired by Déjoie supporters, the next day put Port-au-Prince under martial law-a move which aroused fears that Haiti's junta might not yet be ready to turn over power to civilian authority...
Cold-turkey talk, served up by World Bank President Eugene R. Black, was the main dish last week for finance ministers of the world's underdeveloped countries. Meeting in Washington at the International Monetary Fund, sister of the World Bank, they heard Black give a polite accounting of the bank's biggest ($332 million disbursed around the globe) year since the Marshall Plan era. But far less polite was Black's accounting of how some of the loans were used...
...social structure, Greece is none too modern. A Girl in Black is an Ibsenic study of what 19th century Europeans called "the woman question," and from the screen it breathes the musty atmosphere of a long-shut closet-the mid-Victorian kind with a skeleton in it. The main point Director Cacoyannis makes is that "respectable people" in Greece are still locked in the closet of 19th century manners and morals, and he seems to think it high time they broke...
Baldwin said that the main problem was the all-night party and the overly free mingling of the sexes in the late hours of the evening. He cited incidents in which a couple would just find a spot in the fraternity and "lie on the floor together all night...