Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomatic note rocketed last week from the State Department to Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic: What had the Dominican authorities discovered in their prolonged investigation of the death of Airline Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy, 23, a U.S. citizen? Buried in the question was a startling story. The FBI and New York police believe that Pilot Murphy was murdered because he knew too much about the mysterious disappearance last March of Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez, writer of a Ph.D. thesis condemning Dictator Trujillo (TIME, April...
...days later the U.S. embassy asked Dominican police to investigate Murphy's disappearance. A month went by. Then the U.S. chargé d'affaires was told that Octavio de la Maza, another pilot on the airline, had hanged himself in a prison cell and left a note confessing that he had killed Murphy. Motive for the suicide: "remorse." Motive for the murder: not given...
Students who became aware of this discrepancy immediately started circulating wild tales, even one to the effect that some clever fellow had hoodwinked the Harvard proctors by forging a "personal" note from Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and lecturer in the course...
Students are curious about the United States, Fainsod claimed. In Moscow, he related, students disrupted a class when they learned that he was visiting them. After much whispering, they passed a note addressed "To the American professor," which read: "The honored Mr. professor: will you speak to us in the break between classes? (Signed) A group of students...
...Editor's Note: Because of the depopulation of Cambridge for the interterm recess, the CRIMSON reprints the following editorial which appeared in the issue of January 30. The editorial, representing the opinion of the retiring Executive Board, calls for extensive changes in the University's educational system...