Word: national
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's delay in taking definite action on the National Defense Education Act has been a source of amazement and disappointment both here and at other schools. That Harvard not only failed to lead the opposition to the loyalty provisions in the Act but also failed to follow the lead given by Princeton, Swarthmore and other institutions no doubt comes as a shock to all those who picture the University as the nation's champion of academic freedom...
...including her own husband. A woman, Maria Lavalle Urbina, runs the federal prison and parole board; Francisca Dolores Valdes de Lanz Duret is president and manager of Mexico City's good grey daily, El Universal. In Mexico City alone there are more than 225 women lawyers; across the nation there are over 1,000 chemists. At the National University, women studying to be veterinarians outnumber men; the dental school is 30% female, the department of economics...
...Spotty & Slow." The problem is notably acute in New York, which prides itself on being the nation's most tolerant city. Between 1950 and 1957, New York lost to the suburbs a continental white population numbering about 750,000, gained a Negro and Puerto Rican-immigrant population of nearly 650,000. In sore-spot Manhattan, about 70% of public school children are now Negro and Puerto Rican. More than half (455) of the 704 city schools examined are virtually segregated, and the number is apparently increasing...
...psychologically vital to fiscal confidence, useful as a long-term guarantee that countries can meet their bills. But they have long since ceased to regard it as the sole test of a currency's stability. More important in today's world is the health of a nation's economy, the real rise in its national income, the strength of its built-in fiscal controls. Most nations now have learned the heavy price of unsound financial and fiscal policies; they no longer need the lash of gold...
James Stillman Rockefeller, 57, president of First National City Bank of New York, was appointed chairman of the board succeeding Howard C. Sheperd, who retires Nov. 1 at 65. A grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr. and second cousin of New York's Governor, the new chairman bosses the nation's third largest bank (first: Bank of America, second: Chase Manhattan). A grandson of James Stillman, president of National City from 1891 to 1909, Rockefeller captained Yale's 1924 crew, spurred it to victory in that year's Olympic Games. Married in 1925 to a grandniece...