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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outer space and underground. The ban would be enforced by eight to ten ground teams strategically located in Russia and by airplane air sampling when necessary. Coupled with this limitation on air and water tests was an invitation to Russia to join the U.S. in renewed underground tests. Object: to determine whether new detection refinements, e.g., seismographic instruments sunk deep into the earth, are effective enough to trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Workable Test Ban | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...course that begins with the arm waving ("It gets the blood circulating; there's no point in my talking to a lot of dead brains") is called Drama 106. But Paul Baker's object is to spade up whatever creative ability a student has. By sweet reasonableness or sour harangue, he prods course-takers to write stories, paint pictures and compose music. False notes and failed paintings are unimportant in this basic course, which is required for Baylor undergraduates; all Baker wants students to do is "get acquainted with their own minds-which, incidentally, very few people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wolfe in Waco | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

Meanwhile the ducks were nosing the foreign straw object with curiosity, while a collie dog ran up and down the shore barking. The swan boat changed course, pedaling full speed ahead towards the center of interest. "They're going to rescue my hat!" Jessie sighed in the tones of a movie heroine. And, indeed, the attendant was poking away the ducks with a pointed stick. After some sleight of boat and hand, he fished the hat out and proceeded on course...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: The Swan's Song | 4/25/1959 | See Source »

...excitement" in his proposal, in contrast to the "continued uninspiring note-taking" which prevails now. The director of one workshop might have some of his students sit in on lectures in other courses, or do independent research or aid Faculty members on a particular project; all with the object of having the student learn to think independently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bruner Seeks Seminars For Advanced Freshmen | 4/24/1959 | See Source »

...that Bunche had, according to a Senate probe, "repeatedly pressured persons in charge of UN employment to hire a notorious Communist agent." Another member of the Veritas Committee, Kenneth D. Robertson '29, said there is "no question" that the loyalty board which cleared Bunche of subversive charges was "the object of intense Communist pressure...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Veritas Speakers Warn College on 'Infiltration' | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

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