Word: originators
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most intensive study done within this group was a comparison of 44 students who did leave to an equal number who finished Harvard in four years. The family backgrounds, geographical origin, preparatory school background, medical history, personal difficulties, College Board scores and the future plans, of both groups were compared...
Elsewhere behind the Iron Curtain, the situation is even blacker. Secondhand autos of every make, year and origin are quickly snapped up at astronomical prices, e.g., $5,000 for a tiny secondhand Renault. The price of 90,000 zlotys ($22,500 at the official rate of exchange) for a new Warszawa represents 250 weeks' work for a Pole. Hungarians, Bulgarians and Rumanians, who manufacture no cars of their own, must set their sights on imported Russian Pobedas, which cost them the equivalent of from 130 weeks' work to 750 weeks' work (in Rumania), depending on the currency...
...decision to divorce satellite development from weaponry, the Vanguard was accepted as having more "dignity." Snorted Wernher von Braun at the time: "I'm all for dignity. But this is a cold-war tool. How dignified would our position really be if a man-made star of unknown origin suddenly appeared in our skies...
...next two years Dumas 1) became Garibaldi's director of antiquities, 2) helped excavate Pompeii, 3) founded a Neapolitan newspaper, 4) started one novel, one biography (of Garibaldi), a history of the Neapolitan Bourbons in eleven volumes, countless articles, and a sociological study entitled "The Origin of Brigandage." The admiral gave birth to a baby girl and was put on "half-pay." Said happy papa Dumas: "I don't want to exaggerate, but I really believe that, up and down the world, I have got more than five hundred children...
...court might construe the photograph requirement as an "inquiry concerning the race, religion, color, or national origin of a person seeking admission" and declare it contrary to the law. But, before the state hails Harvard into court, or, waving a moral banner, brow-beats the University into submission, it should inquire into the real reasons for the "inquiry." It would find that the admissions office does use information from the photographs for discriminatory purposes. Discrimination, however, is in favor of the so-called underprivileged groups whose welfare was the original pretext for the FEPA...