Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Merrill also disclosed that the State Department hopes to extend the plan to permit other universities to participate. In Russia only Moscow and Leningrad Universities are open to foreign students, but Merrill hopes that the Russians will agree to send delegations to as many American schools as are equipped to handle them...
...spend more money. In his recent television speech to the nation President Eisenhower suggested a nationwide science test, with subsidies going to those students who show aptitude. "This suggestion," said New Jersey's Commissioner of Education, was "the most dangerous ever to come out of Washington. If we permit nationwide tests, we will be teaching what the test makers want us to teach; we would have directions on what to teach from the Federal government...
...Jimenez. At the push of a button, the 'two leather-upholstered chairs buzz back into a lounging position. In the rear of the front seat are a 17-inch television set, a high-fidelity tape recorder, and a small bar (four glasses, two bottles). A telephone system will permit the President to talk to his aide up front without the chauffeur's listening in, or (by shortwave radio) to the presidential palace and army headquarters. A weapons compartment will hold two submachine guns...
...optical observation. The life of Sputnik I, say the Russians, should be about three months; thus the satellite should stay aloft until the new year. Its carrier rocket, which has more air drag, will spiral down and burn out sooner. Sputnik II has not been aloft long enough to permit accurate predictions, but since it is heavy and not very big, it has low drag in proportion to its weight. Also it orbits higher in thinner air. So the Russians think it will circle the earth considerably longer than Sputnik...
...vowed he would never return, never exhibit in his native land while Franco was there. Last week Picasso relented, at least to the point of letting 48 of his works be shown in Barcelona's Gaspar Gallery. Franco's government, which granted the works a temporary customs permit to enter, did nothing to muzzle the press. Result: a jampacked exhibition, ringing press tributes to Picasso as "the painter of our time...