Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...democratic ideals are also freely smashed. South Africa refuses the vote to the 80% of its citizens who are colored. Commonwealth nations have jailed members of their own Parliaments, suppressed newspapers, and in one case (Pakistan) abolished Parliament, deported the President, and imposed military rule. Said a British professor: "About the only thing we can't stand is being beaten by one of them at cricket...
Prime target of the campaign is U.S. unemployment, which Pravda claims is so severe that American streets are "typically" clogged with people queued up for charity because their unemployment compensation has run out. Wrote one Russian professor about an encounter in the heart of Manhattan. "I can almost see standing in front of me now a man of 35, unshaven, in a soiled, rumpled raincoat, hunched over, and in a whisper asking for only a cigarette." Pravda this month gleefully printed an Associated Press picture (see. cut) of the tattered family and the shack of a striking Kentucky coal miner...
...compulsory school-attendance law. Fortnight ago the case came up before Municipal Judge Searle Sandeen of Stillwater, who listened to four University of Minnesota scholars testify that Tommy's studies do indeed meet the legal requirements of private-school instruction and should be so recognized. English Professor Huntington Brown called Tommy's curriculum "a respectable, oldfashioned, academic program," said he would prefer it to the public schools' for his own children. History Professor David Noble called Tommy's knowledge of history "unique, especially in view of the lack of history teaching in public schools." Electrical Engineering...
...John's University Christopher Dawson, British historian, professor of Roman Catholic studies, Harvard University L.H.D...
Western Reserve University Loren C. Eiseley, author, professor of anthropology, University of Pennsylvania L.H.D...