Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Paul and Agnes and their three youngsters in the mountains of Fukien. As long as they lived in Shanghai, their home was open to me. After reading "Happy Man," one happy woman reflects that except for Paul Hutchinson I might never have gone to China, might never have met George Fitch,*might never have found myself a mother of six and grandmother...
...already the challenges of the new age were being met. In late 1950, in a storage shack nicknamed "Siberia" in a shipyard in Groton, Conn., Nautilus began to take shape under the intense, sometimes ruthless direction of Captain Hyman Rickover. Some of the salt-encrusted admirals had sneered at Rickover's folly and his obstreperous methods, obstructed him for five long and crucial years, tried to break up his team and even to get him tossed out of the Navy. It remained for Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations since last August, to realize fully what Nautilus meant...
...Drama Group met with Eliot tutors a few weeks ago, shortly after a program had been announced for next year that included "Oedipus Rex," Sheridan's "The Critic," "Henry IV," Parts I & II, Shaw's "Heartbreak House," and "Midsummer Night's Dream...
...students nor its faculty will take a departure from the school's ideals lightly. The chapels, athletic policy, oversized Gen. Ed. classes, attempts to impose "gracious living," even the destruction of an apple orchard in the name of what is known at Brandeis as the "edifice complex" have met vigorous debate which has often resulted in policy modifications. But just as I would not advise evaluating Harvard on the basis of the Omnibus account, so do I hope that the value of the energy and devotion which have gone into Brandeis will not be adjudged solely by what is done...
...that the money pinch was real. Chicago's big commercial banks were slow to take on new borrowers, were only lending to prime risks. At a Pennsylvania Bankers Association meeting, FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. felt called upon to defend his policy. FRB, said Martin, has "always met business's seasonal needs and will keep on doing so." And needs were being met: even at high interest rates, commercial bank loans in Manhattan alone rose $122 million for the week, nearly five times the increase for the comparable period of last year...