Word: professor
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...well-to-do landowners, Segni became a professor of civil law, no sooner swung into politics in his 30s than he swung right out again in the face of Italian Fascism. He left his law books once more to help found the Christian Democrat Party in the 1940s, and since 1944 has regularly held Cabinet posts in the government. As Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in 1950, he drafted the land-reform bills that helped turn back Italy's rising Communist tide, ultimately freed nearly 2,000,000 acres of privately owned land for distribution among 150,000 peasants...
Scholar. The case was by no means a neat package. Lynn Kauffman was a close friend to Stanley Spector, 35, a professor of Far Eastern Affairs at St. Louis' Washington University, and to his family. She was Professor Specter's secretary and a dedicated scholar in Oriental studies (she could speak Mandarin); she had lived with Spector and his wife Juanita and three children since 1956, accompanied the Spector family to Singapore last year. Spector himself had flown home to St. Louis from Singapore, and his family, with Lynn, followed aboard Utrecht...
After 53 years on the concert stage since his childhood debut as a violin virtuoso, Jascha Heifetz, 58, will soon expand his previous teaching activities, be a full professor of music at the University of California at Los Angeles. He will teach pupils who will get no grades, credits or medals for their showings. Why this new vocational tangent? "Violin playing is a perishable art," explained Heifetz. "It must be passed on as a personal skill; otherwise it is lost." Then Heifetz fondly recalled his old violin professor in czarist Russia: "He said that some day I would be good...
Died. Sumner H. Slichter, 67, white-thatched, aggressively independent economist, Lament Professor (1940-59) at Harvard, who tested his academic theories by constant contact with people active in business, labor and government, filled nine books and countless articles with a hard-headed faith in the buoyancy of the U.S. economy, condoned inflation as the price of increased productivity, and even (1959) urged a $3 billion annual federal deficit to sustain demand; of a kidney ailment; in Boston. A startlingly accurate economic prophet, Slichter usually championed the minority view. When his fellow economists took a leaf from Marx and gloomily predicted...
...major parties, but it also calls into question the liberal ideology. Complaints that complacency among the voters merely found reflection in Congress may perhaps be sufficient explanation, but the voters evidently were not complacent last fall. The appearance maybe that a prosperous America prefers immoblisme to dynamism. Professor Schlesinger may argue that liberalism is cyclical in this country but it had better find a solid program if it wishes to prevent the dissipation of future victories in the manner of this year...