Word: nats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nat Sci program is one of the virtually insoluble problems of General Education. The most important difficulty--that there is not the remotest agreement on what, correctly speaking, ought to be taught, is one which is coming into other areas, as the personnel problem has. While the rest of General Education has been received with general approval over the last decade, Nat Sci has not. One of its founders admitted last spring that the program as it stood was a failure...
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...define the aims in a manner narrow enough to be within the reach of a one-year course, brought a fresh outlook to the program, and, apparently as a result of either the report or pleas by members of the Committee, several prominent natural scientists have become interested in Nat Sci--Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, is teaching half of Nat Sci 2, and George Wald, professor of Bio-chemistry, will teach a lower level course next year. Nevertheless, it is clear that prominent scientists can give time to the program only at considerable personal sacrifice...
...Augie's best friends was blonde Janice Drake, 33, onetime showgirl, Miss New Jersey in 1944, and wife of TV Comic Allen Drake. Like Augie, Jan had a talent for encountering people just before curtain time. She was questioned closely about Anastasia's death, and Nat Nelson, a playboy garment distributor, was found murdered in his bachelor apartment the morning after a date with...
...hour later Benjamin faced the Big Red's Nat Cravener in the two-mile. The two men raced neck-and-neck until Cravener passed Benjamin with two laps to go. Again Benjamin turned on his overwhelming finishing kick, winning this time by more than 15 yards in the meet record time...