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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University received $18.1 million from its endowment funds during the last fiscal year, Paul C. Cabot '21, Treasurer of the College, has reported to the Board of Overseers. This gain represents a 5.3 per cent return on the book value of the endowment, the highest in at least the past five years...
This is the country where any little boy can Grow Up To Be President--even if he's rich. But from all appearances, the job that has in the past been held by such men as Grant, Harding, and Eisenhower will be empty after 1961, because no one wants it. Of course the routine of patriotic reluctance and ultimate submission to an "unwanted" nomination is old and familiar. But we are now asked to witness a display of coquetry unprecedented even in William Jennings Bryan's day: the spectacle of the dozen or so most qualified and ambitious...
Meanwhile, the Democrats have at least six or eight men who are not running. There is Senator K. from Massachusetts, noticeably more vocal in Congress recently than in the past. Then there are Senator S. from Missouri and Governor B. from California and Governor W. from Michigan and Governor M. from New Jersey, all of whom are very active these days winning friends and denying everything. Senator J. from Texas, who many sophisticated observers say has been President since 1953 anyway, continues to keep everyone in Washington almost happy at the same time, carefully spreading himself wtih intriguing regularity over...
...short themselves at one point in the third period, the Mules were able to lace another marker into the Crimson nets when a Colby penalty-killer deflected one of Harvard's clearing passes to a teammate who drove the puck past Crimson goalie Willy Henderson. In a last-ditch attempt to stay in the game, Harvard began to emphasize offensive play at the cost of defense. But the Colby center was able to jump the Crimson defensemen, and with an assist from a wing, shot the puck into the cage for the Mules' final tally...
...million Italian-descended citizens claim heritage "from the Italian civilization." Then he got into Gronchi's official Fiat, drove the long way into Rome along the Old Appian Way-the historic route. Crowd turnout in the heavy rain: thin. The motorcade rolled through the Gate of San Sebastiano, past the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum, into the Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini used to strut and harangue. Even there, only 2,000 umbrella-toting Romans came out to look, and only a few shouted "Viva Ike" (pronounced Eekay). Among the most vociferous were Rome's Communists...