Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crackle of ideas crisply delivered (the central theme: in 20 centuries man has made no progress save in mechanical ingenuity), and offered a witty appraisal of human strength and weakness. But the TV audience, according to Trendex, gave the show only a trifling rating of 16.5-roughly on a par with the Mickey Mouse Club...
...library or replace its retiring professors. It even had to pay part of its faculty in scrip. In 1936 the North Central Association finally withdrew its accreditation. Today, reports President Ira W. Langston, the yearly deficit is still $20,000, and though the library is climbing up to par and the college has about the proper proportion of Ph.D.'s on its faculty, it cannot approach the association until Langston balances his budget. But where will the money come from? One corporation recently with drew a promised gift of $12,500 because Eureka was not accredited. The Ford Foundation...
...marched into the mess hall with huge signs saying "Move Over, Annapolis" and "Our Ship Has Come In." The cadets had good reason to celebrate. Last week President Eisenhower signed a bill making Kings Point the nation's fifth permanent service school, thus putting it on a legal par with Annapolis, West Point, and the Air Force and Coast Guard Academies...
...turned from hunting to his first love-golf. At Thomasville's Glen Arven Country Club, the President, undeterred by a drizzle, played a nine-hole round for the first time since his heart attack. Moving from hole to hole in an electric cart, Ike shot a 47. (Par for the nine: 36.) His long shots were ragged-he was obviously reluctant to hit down into the ball-and as he left the course he remarked: "I'm a little frightened, not only of the strokes, but also I'm a little frightened of myself." (Said General Snyder...
Water for Both. Next morning the law-school quadrangle was filled with some 500 blue-shirted centurions armed with truncheons, tire chains and pistols. They greeted arriving students with shouts of "A par los senoritos!" (Let's get the little sissies). In the battle that followed, students dropped tables and desks from classrooms on Falange heads, tore up furniture to make weapons. The S.E.U. offices in the law school were attacked, files were burned and Falangist symbols destroyed...