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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complicates the problems, has only one aim: to reply in advance to the Soviet government's objections and allay its fears. We understand perfectly well that reunification of Germany in freedom arouses anxiety in our Russian colleagues . . . [So] we thought it better to attach to German reunification a number of provisions relating to security and disarmament which would be likely to allay these Soviet misgivings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: DIALOGUE IN GENEVA | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Africa." cried the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, his mournful face almost aglow, "a number of nations have gained their freedom or are on the road to freedom, and this desire is also present amongst the Bantu people of the Union." He was speaking last week in behalf of a bill-"a God-given task"-that would ostensibly grant that freedom to the Bantus by setting up what will eventually become eight separate black states, which presumably would gradually become more and more nearly self-governing. The Prime Minister himself compared the arrangement to the British Commonwealth of independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Big Hedge | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Participation in the community service programs of Phillips Brooks House showed a marked comeback this year after slumping during 1957-58. Robert R. Little '60 estimated yesterday that the number of active members of P.B.H. "increased by 15 per cent to about 700," in spite of increasing demands upon the extra time of undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Cites Increase In Members Despite Demanding Program | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

...music, both Samuel Barber and Carlos Chavez, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, are strong candidates, and in the money-raising department--known officially as distinguished service to the University--H. Irving Pratt '26, the new Program Director, and a number of big givers are in the running...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Speculation over Honoraries Grows; Big Crime Contest Open to Students | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

...second term would undertake a close examination of the stylistic metamorphoses of Western painting as reflected by a small number of works of the greatest masters from Giotto to the decline of the Baroque at the end of the seventeenth century. Here, the ways of looking at a painting as discussed in the first term would give depth to a historical study of art styles. The student at last would have a chance to emerge with a deep familiarity with a significant era in art history. What is far more important, the course will have made a thorough attempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Introducing the Fine Arts | 5/27/1959 | See Source »

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