Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shy, scholarly George Marek got the music habit early. The son of a Viennese dentist, he haunted the Vienna Opera as a child, later became a regular standee at the Metropolitan Opera after his parents sent him to the U.S. at the age of 17 to make his fortune. For...
After swearing allegiance to the U.S., should a college student who gets a federal loan also have to file an affidavit that he is not subversive? Yes, according to the National Defense Education Act. No, according to 16 colleges and universities that now refuse to take part in the $30...
Last week President Eisenhower confronted the growing controversy at his press conference in Washington. Said Ike: "I personally am ready each morning to take an oath that I am not a Communist and that I am loyal to the United States. I think, however, that when we begin to single...
Most college presidents still feel that they cannot give up federal funds for needy students, however much they might wish to follow the Harvard-Yale principle. Ike voiced sympathy: "I rather deplore that universities have found it necessary to find, for the moment, a narrow dividing line and therefore keep...
To take the "lock step" out of U.S. schools and get every child moving at his own pace, the mighty Fund for the Advancement of Education has spent $12.3 million in the past two years. Last week Fund President Clarence H. Faust suggested that the job has just begun. In...