Word: public
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line with the Administration's request for public discussion on the College's dining hall problems, Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, speculated yesterday about having students serve food in a system similar to the one used at Radcliffe...
...July 23, 1959, after two days of confused debate, the Senate voted, 49-42, to recomit the Kennedy-Clark bill to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, with, said Kennedy, "the understanding that we would reconsider the legislation." In the coming session of Congress, the two Senators plan a change in tactics as they again "press for the enactment" of their bill. "It may be necessary to separate consideration" of the loyalty affidavit and the disclaimer affidavit, Kennedy indicated, for "there is much wider support for the deletion" of the latter...
...Medical School has obtained its first-choice site for the construction of a new $5 million library, a spokesman for the Administration said last night. The library will be built on the Huntington Ave. land now occupied by the Martin Public School, which has been condemned by the city as unsafe...
Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. A challenging study of what is wrong with U.S. foreign policy, notably, the lack of a clear American public philosophy...
...officer was U.S. Colonel Philip Cochran, who had won some fame of his own as the model for "Flip Corkin" in Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates. On their first meeting, Cochran thought Wingate was an elaborate hoax, and was so baffled by his British public-school accent (Charterhouse) that he was sure Wingate suffered from an impediment in his speech. But at their second meeting, Cochran found "something very deep" about him and realized he "was beginning to assimilate some of the flame of this guy Wingate...