Word: professors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version of the visitor's reception. "The man's a pathological case," said the Air Force Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Heye Schaper. Said President Cornelis Kolff of the Dutch Aeronautical Association: "The Queen showed an extraordinary interest in the whole subject." "The Queen," said Professor Maarten Rooy of the University of Amsterdam, "sat impassive-a hostess who does not want to offend a guest...
...quarter of a century ascetic Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar has slaved 18 hours a day, six days a week, giving the Portuguese the sternly ordered rule he thinks best for them. The least the little economics professor expected in return was public admiration, and for a surprisingly long time for a strongman, he got it. But though his budgets are tidily balanced, his people are still poor, and increasingly fed up with the lack of freedom and the harsh police methods of Salazar's paternal dictatorship. Portugal's money is stronger than the dollar, and prices...
...that DDT is sometimes absorbed by plants and ends up in human tissues. Also, some insects have developed immunity to it. With Pa van's discovery, researchers in the U.S., Britain, Italy and Germany went to work. Last week a three-man team headed by Bonn University Chemistry Professor Friedhelm Korte, who also runs a Shell oil company laboratory in suburban Bonn, announced it had at last synthesized Iridomyrmecin. Cautioned a Shell spokesman: "We cannot say how much the new stuff will cost and when it will be marketed, because we do not know ourselves...
...music, both Samuel Barber and Carlos Chavez, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, are strong candidates, and in the money-raising department--known officially as distinguished service to the University--H. Irving Pratt '26, the new Program Director, and a number of big givers are in the running...
Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics, emeritus, whose distinguished work in his field and in General Education made him one of the most invaluable men on the Faculty, could well receive an honorary, and Tsung Dao Lee, professor of Physics at Columbia, Francis E. Low, Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics and professor of Physics at M.I.T., and Robert B. Woodward, professor of Chemistry, who is rumored to be near the completion of the synthesis of chlorophyll, are also candidates for the degree in science which the University traditionaly awards...