Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Rutgers University (Phi Beta Kappa,'31), M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Certificat Avancé from France's Sorbonne, has a scholar's command of Latin, French and Spanish and a reading knowledge of German and Portuguese. Now head of the modern language department in North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave's grandson, one of five accomplished children of a Methodist minister. His brother E. Frederic is a White House administrative officer (Special Projects), brother William is a Regular U.S. Army sergeant in Germany, brother Eugene works for the Hackensack...
Acknowledged shrine of modern architecture was the famed Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany, and Architect Walter Gropius was its high priest. The boxy building with flat roofs and ribbon-glass windows that Gropius built there in 1926 laid down the line architecture was to follow for the next three decades. An exile from Hitler's Germany, Gropius introduced his methods as chairman of Harvard's department of architecture, revolutionized architecture in the U.S., became so firmly planted in architectural history that people were sometimes amazed to find him still a part of the present...
Major General Donald N. Yates, commander, U.S.A.F missile-testing base, Cape Canaveral, Fla LL.D. Citation: "A very model of a modern major general, highly trained in science as well as warfare. A crack meteorologist, his predictions set the date for D-day in World War II ... He has proved himself a brilliant administrator and leader...
Died. Tshekedi Khama, 53, tough, durable chief (1926-50) of the Bamangwato tribe in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, who imposed education, modern sanitation and agriculture on his impassive, faction-torn tribe, fought off encroachments of the adjoining, racist Union of South Africa; of a liver ailment; in London. Impetuous Tshekedi was exiled twice: once (1933) for ordering a white man flogged who had abused a native woman (when the field gun of a punitive force sent to depose him bogged down in the mud, Tshekedi sent a team of oxen to haul it out); later (1950) for stormily objecting...
...preliminary hearing. Both bookmen discussed Lawrence's somewhat tedious and dated story of a gamekeeper who played round games with the lady of the manor, pointed out its philosophical overtones (nature v. civilization), granted its explicit language on sex (mild by the standards of many a modern bestseller), but professed to see not even a quiver of prurience in the book. As for the Postmaster General, he sat down to read the novel himself, concluded: "The book is replete with descriptions in minute detail of sexual acts, utilizing filthy, offensive and degrading words and terms. Any literary merit...