Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the University of Nevada is the only institution of higher learning in the state, anything that happens there is apt to make headlines. But not since its foundation 83 years ago have the headlines registered the bitterness they have shown in the past five years. Since he took over in 1952, President Minard W. Stout, 49, has been the center of so many political and academic storms that he now holds the distinction of being the most discussed figure in the state...
Onetime professor of education and principal of the University of Minnesota's laboratory high school, Stout has in many ways chalked up a remarkable record in Nevada. Through appropriations and bond issues, the state now gives the university three times as much money as it did in 1952. Gifts and grants are up from an average of $100,000 a year to more than $1,000,000. While only 49% of the faculty had Ph.D.s in 1952, today 65% do. Stout upped faculty salaries 68%, started a college of education, a junior college in Las Vegas, a graduate school...
...restlessly from foot to foot, waiting to take off on a ten-day Easter recess. Holding the members back: an eleventh-hour squabble between houses over terms of a bill authorizing $275 million in emergency funds for state public-assistance programs. Breaking down their differences-after a threat by Nevada's "Molly" Malone to talk until the snow was nine feet deep on Pennsylvania Avenue-House and Senate finally escaped Washington until month...
...hours, a pilot sat watching the instruments. Then he got bored and let the plane fly itself. It did, making minor corrections for each gust of air. It rose to 21,000 ft. to traverse the Rockies, stayed on course through a 100-m.p.h. wind shift over Nevada. Finally, 13 hours and 2,520 miles from Bedford, the pilot took over, took the aircraft the remaining ten miles to Los Angeles International Airport. To the jubilant M.I.T. scientists aboard the plane, he lamented: "I've just lost...
...YORK, April 26--The American Assn. of University Professors today accused the University of Nevada and Catawba College, Salisbury, N.C., of unfairly firing faculty members...