Word: provisionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leading the fight for tax relief was Schenley Industries, which favored granting tax relief to existing and future whisky stocks. Among Schenley's arguments: only in this way can U.S. distillers compete with the British and Canadians, whose governments have no force-out tax provision. Against Schenley stood Joseph...
The tiny faculty-last year it numbered seven-took on a challenging task from Mildred Mudd, who died last month (see MILESTONES), and her fellow trustees: to create a topflight college of science and engineering, and to build its curriculum up from basic science, not from other colleges' texts...
> Senate and House conferees on the federal-aid-to-education bill scratched a Senate provision for 23,000 federal scholarships, agreed on remaining features of an $887-million bill to improve U.S. scientific training (see EDUCATION).
The $887 million bill for federal aid to education passed last week is a sweeping reaffirmation of a principle well established by the Morrill Act of 1862, which set up financing for the nation's land-grant colleges, stated again in many lesser measures that followed, and restated in...
One night in October 1956, still in white tie and tails, Lodge hurried to the U.N. from the Metropolitan Opera House to call for an immediate Security Council meeting to deal with the Israeli invasion of Egypt. When Russia's Arkady Sobolev strode into the Security Council waving a...