Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trustees, on the other hand, were well aware of the engagement's implications when they met April 19. By a vote of 26 to 4, they agreed to allow the Hiss invitation to stand, but voiced unanimously their "disapproval of the students" who offered the bid. In its action, the Board disregarded blasts from several influential alumni, including a north New Jersey group which noted in a Princetonian advertisement that the controversy was hurting Princeton's Annual Giving program...
...Daily Princetonian, from undergraduates at large. In the unique position of a student adviser not on the Princeton payroll, he had previously waged bitter forays into both the Religion and Philosophy departments. Now his invective became so extreme that practically everyone on campus joined in the ridicule. He met incessant boos and jeers at his anti-Hiss, anti-Princeton talk on the eve of the great event, and caused a minor demonstration when he asserted, "Princeton is in its darkest hour...
...Rouge Chamber of Commerce, warned the Southern Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives: "Boycotts, economic reprisals, incidents of violence-these are new factors which will now be given consideration by industry and business when they consider a Southern location. The South faces a crisis such as it has not met in its lifetime...
...just as quietly as possible." Nevertheless, desegregation of industry remains one of the most powerful liberating forces in the South today. And it will continue, since industries are less concerned with emotional considerations than hard economic fact: the South's critical shortage of skilled labor can only be met by training and promoting workers on the basis of capability, not color...
...half of a two-man news agency, Java-born South African Author Schiemer, now 23, was a fledgling reporter of the Cairo scene for a year beginning in March 1953. He met Nasser and Naguib, original front man of the coup, and made friends with members of the Arab League, the Moslem Brotherhood, Egyptian army officers and plain people of the poor native quarter where he lived. With its probing look at Egyptian attitudes, motivations and customs, the book is written more between the headlines than on top of them...