Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Van Vleck said yesterday that the committee would seek to "integrate and examine the two fields." Statistics needs a complete overhauling, Dean Van Vleck said, while Applied Mathematics, which already has a comprehensive curriculum, will probably require only minor additions...
Last week, just 14 days after weighing anchor in the Gironde River, the crew of the cutter Lord Jim brought their craft up the Thames. All was well at last, with only one minor drawback-of all the bottles carefully laid away in Lord Jim's lockers, only ten still contained wine. "Ah, well," mused Guitarist de Castelbajac, as his captain faced London's vintners with somewhat empty hands, "some wine, it just does not travel...
...minor irritants in Dictator Francisco Franco's steady pursuit of world esteem has been the continued existence of small groups of Spanish non-Communist democrats in exile. What particularly irritates Franco is the suspicion that France, which supported the Loyalist Republican government, is still giving financial aid to Loyalist exiles, and paying the rent for Republican headquarters in Paris. With each change in French government, the Spanish ambassador has gone across to the Quai d'Orsay to ask that the subsidy, whatever it is, be withdrawn. Recently Franco has found a way to put a real squeeze...
Ansbach, Germany, for no reason except enthusiasm and the fact that the old Bach stronghold, Leipzig, is now behind the Iron Curtain, puts on its annual Bach festival (July 23-30). On hand: Spanish Guitarist Andrés Segovia, U.S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick. Featured choral work: the B-Minor Mass...
When those humid winds begin to add warmth to an already unbearably exam period, little irritations seem to boil over with mounting regularity. But minor complaints, and the passions that fan them, have never seemed quite right for a coolly argued editorial. Accordingly, we have bowed to the twin gods of Research and Significance, consistently showing that reorganization of University Hall could provide the dollars for any number of revolutionary projects. Should it prove possible to support the needy with administrative salaries, that too will be advocated. The problems of the State Department have proved no more perplexing than Dean...