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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this support France pulled out all the propaganda stops. From his remote hospital in French Equatorial Africa Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prizewinner for 1952, fired off a letter urging President Eisenhower to uphold the French position. In 31 U.S. newspapers there appeared a full-page ad, sponsored by nine European and Canadian newspapers, carrying the text of a Le Figaro article ominously warning the U.S. not to make France choose "between her African vocation and her American friendship...
With a grant from the Rockefeller-backed General Education Board, the center began as the most ambitious experiment of its kind in the country. Though its original nine members were skeptical at first, they gradually began to realize how much they had lost by clinging to the competitive tradition of each campus for itself. "Cooperation comes hard at first," says the center's administrator. Herbert Fitzroy. "But once you get everybody thinking cooperatively about one thing, they're talking cooperatively about 18 things." Eventually, four more campuses joined up, and though the center still depends on outside grants...
Commodity market prices often forecast retail prices six to nine months in advance, since it usually takes that long for the rise or fall in wholesale prices to be passed on. Last week the commodity markets showed a distinct downtrend. Copper, at a 90-year peak of 46 a lb. only last March, slumped to 34?, was expected to drop still further. No. 2 copper scrap, also a March record-breaker when it hit 45.5?, fell 20? to the lowest price in some two years as copper production outpaced demand...
After two minutes, Harrington and Tiger Carl Belz scored twice each to make it 38 to 34, but then Princeton fell apart. Fast breaks and cool foul shooting paid off for the Crimson as the home team ran its lead to 57 to 38 after nine minutes, and from there on the win was assured. The home team was controlling both backboards, as only Fulcomer continued to jump for the losers, and Cappon threw in his substitutes after ten minutes...
Gezork, who travelled in Russia with nine other American churchmen to meet Russian church leaders, distinguished two periods in Russia's struggle against religion. The first, extending from 1917 to 1938, was marked by severe oppression mitigated by brief periods of relief...