Word: programed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best one-word description of Henry J. Kaiser, 77, and his son Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser, 51, is the title of the TV program sponsored by their $1.8 billion industrial empire: Maverick. Before he moved upstairs to let his son take over, bulldozing Henry J. built a worldwide network of diversified companies with an independence and daring that alternately drew gasps, laughter, and profanity from U.S. industry. Last week Son Edgar once more proved that the Kaisers are mavericks: he settled with the striking United Steelworkers on behalf of his Kaiser Steel Corp., thus breaking the industry's solid ranks...
This does not simply mean that Harvard must righteously refuse to touch forms with an affidavit of belief attached; the University must also refuse to participate in any program which includes such an affidavit. A decade ago it might have been possible to secure repeal of the NSF affidavit by lobbying, but past inaction has committed Harvard to taking a far stronger position if it wants the affidavit removed...
...affidavit, as the Faculty and the Administration have done, and then to imply that the affidavit is quite all right if the College does not have to administer it. If this noxious part of aid to education is to be eliminated, Harvard must refuse to participate in any program demanding such an affidavit, even those in which its only task is to distribute forms or lick a postage stamp...
...realism. It would be profoundly unjust to prevent students already holding grants or fellowships from renewing them, for many have planned their education around these funds. But as long as the NSF affidavit remains, it will serve as a dangerous precedent. Any sort of participation in the NSF program at this time serves to support the very affirmation of belief which Harvard so vigorously protests...
Dmitri Shostakovich and four other outstanding Russian composers will visit the University Saturday afternoon as part of a month-long tour of the United States, under the cultural exchange program of the State Department...