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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NEWS), was caught out after curfew one night near Algiers. Stopped by Senegalese troops with fixed bayonets, McHale was prodded off to the commissariat by a young French machine gunner with an itchy finger. When the correspondent showed his press pass, the nervous Frenchman snapped:"That doesn't mean a thing-this is war!" At the commissariat, luckily, cooler heads prevailed: McHale was released after a 15-minute grilling...
...seems to favor married senior faculty members, at excessive cost both to the junior faculty and to all single members of the entire faculty. The estimated $100,000 to be used for the scholarship plan should instead be spent in a flat two percent pay increase. Although this would mean some loss of net faculty pay through taxes, the money would be distributed more fairly...
Monro is in favor of substantially increasing the College enrollment. Harris, on the other hand, opposes such an increase. In a statement to the CRIMSON last winter, he declared that "a substantial rise in enrollment would mean either a great deterioration in the quality of our education or tremendous expenditures for construction...
...program is focused upon the Mississippi delta and Montgomery, Alabama. The especially depressed condition of the former area will mean that most of the food and clothing collected in the drive will be shipped there, Bronson said. He added that material aid to Montgomery will be small and will serve primarily to show moral support...
...zoologists William L. Brown Jr. and Edward C. Wilson is indeed disturbing. Claiming that jungle ants can abide each other after all, the zoologists are seeking to subvert a time-tested law of the universe. If there is any basis in their theory of "character displacement," it will mean that all existing philosphies will have to be rethought. Everyone knows that science determines the nature of the prevalent world view. In the eighteenth century Newton forced Alexander Pope to write in rhyming couplets, and in the nineteenth century Darwin caused the birth of Robber Barons and the death of Louis...