Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special report delivered Oct. 8 to the Board of Overseers and released to the CRIMSON last night Pusey did not mention the exact figure he is seeking in the drive--to be called "A Program for Harvard College"--but it is known that the figure will be in excess of $40 million, and probably more than twice that...
...mention that Anastasio Somoza Jr. ("Tachito") of Nicaragua was educated at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. It would make interesting reading if you could unearth the bug-brained bureaucrat who awarded a West Point appointment to the son of a foreign dictator...
Landing in Washington, President Eisenhower turned his attention to another facet of Moscow relations-a personal note to Ike from Premier Bulganin calling on the U.S. to join with Russia in bringing H-bomb tests to a halt (but making no mention of the U.S. insistence on safeguards). Ike was nettled because Moscow had published the text before he had seen it. He was angry because Bulganin noted that "certain prominent public figures in the United States"-i.e., Adlai Stevenson -had proposed a plan to stop H-bomb tests. And the President characterized as "personally offensive to me" a charge...
INCOME: "They [the Democrats] express every American's concern for the plight of our low-income families. But they are careful not to mention that today's prosperity has reduced the number of such families to an alltime...
...planets Jupiter and Saturn. By calculating the position of the planets backwards for centuries, they place the conjunction in 7 B.C. More recently, climatologists have also disputed the convention of accepting Dec. 25 as the date of Christ's birth. One reason: St. Luke's mention of cattle in the fields. Since the climate of Israel has not changed very much in the past 2,000 years, meteorologists know that Bethlehem was in the grip of frost in December. In Palestine, no good shepherd would think of keeping his flock in the fields under such circumstances...