Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year, on Open House night, the last stage of Bicker, 23 sophomores did not receive bids, and refused to join Prospect Club, a co-operative organization that accepted any interested student. Of the 23, fifteen were Jewish, and several sources charged religious discrimination. Most of these "hundred percenters" have since joined either Prospect or the Wilson Lodge...
...Prospect Non-Selective...
Ahead of the U.S., after Mikoyan's visit as before, stretched the familiar grim vista of struggle-not quite war, certainly not peace, but a course to which the U.S. had long since become accustomed. Against the standard prospect, President Eisenhower, in the budget and the Economic Report that he sent to Congress this week, stressed the nation's need to look to the health of its basic source of material strength: the U.S. economy under the free-enterprise system. For fiscal 1960 the President submitted a balanced $77 billion budget. In his Economic Report, he asked Congress...
...demonstrated against his austerity budget. Algeria's right-wing representatives in the National Assembly were angered by a phrase in De Gaulle's inaugural speech showing that he does not consider Algeria a part of Metropolitan France. French colonists in Algeria were even more disturbed by the prospect that De Gaulle, as President, intends to pardon five Algerian rebel captives, kidnaped by French agents on a 1956 flight to Tunis. Among them is Mohammed ben Bella. Deputy Premier of the Algerian government-in-exile. The five would be transferred from a Paris prison to more comfortable detention...
...Gaulle's return to power. Ambitious Jacques Soustelle clearly felt he deserved one of the senior Cabinet posts-Defense, Foreign Affairs or Interior -rather than his present Ministry of Information. But the widespread (and possibly exaggerated) suspicion of his tactics and his intentions makes many fear the prospect that as head of the Interior he would control the police. When newsmen queried him on his prospects, Anthropologist Soustelle gloomily quipped: "Perhaps I will go back to Mexico and my Aztecs...