Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mission to India. In past days, proposals to pool foreign aid have met with congressional insistence that there should be Made-in-U.S.A. labels on all gifts sent abroad in order to win cold-war advantage. And until lately, European nations have talked poor mouth (Italy, for example, likes to bring up its own impoverished south, the Mezzogiorno, as one of the world's underdeveloped regions). Or they have insisted that British spending in the Commonwealth, French aid to its Community, and Belgian assistance to the Congo must be reckoned as each country's contribution to taking...
Vermont conditions are as follows: East Burke, Burke Mt. 2 to 6 base, 3 packed powder, skiing fair to good. All lifts operating; Shelburne, Killington Basin, 6 to 10, one new powder, poor to fair; Stowe, Mt. Mansfield, 12 to 24, 2 new powder, fair to good...
...disappointing to see Sanders only half full for the H.R.O.'s Christmas concert of modern music. If the poor attendance was in main due to the fact that the program consisted entirely of works composed in this century, then this speaks ill for Harvard's intelligentsia. Certainly the first and last pieces on the program by Samuel Barber and Manuel DeFalla could not possibly be considered "difficult" works and, to those familiar with Schoenberg's atonal period and the orchestral songs of Mahler, the Octandre by Edgar Varese, the French avant-garde composer and the Four Orchestra Songs...
...even paying to prepare several to enter the college by sending them to preparatory schools in New England. To my knowledge, the only quota or limit placed upon a Negro's entry into Harvard is found in the low economic status of Negroes generally and in the poor educational facilities available to many Negroes...
...spite of a rather poor showing, inexperience was not the Engineers' problem. Fourth-ranked Tony Lake, in fact, played a man he has met five times before in official competition. Lake...