Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME; by his own hand (gunshot); in Manhattan. Chicago-born, Oregon-reared Ed Cerf joined TIME as a writer after graduation from Princeton in 1940, the next year went into the Marine Corps, fought at Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, by war's end had risen to the rank of major...
When the College announced its $82.5 million Program, however, the construction of a new commuter center, "yielding nothing whatever in style or quality to the existing residential Houses," was put in the "front rank of Harvard's immediate concern." Last December the existing commuter center attained House status when Dean Leighton arrived at Dudley as its first Master. The words "Dudley Hall" on the front door were changed to "Dudley House," and new stationery was promptly ordered...
...course, this suggests that commuting students are not, on the whole, as bright as their classmates, and such seems to be the case. According to Dean Bender, the average commuter has a lower Predicted Rank List than the average resident, and with only about 16 major "feeder schools" close enough to send their graduates to the College, the number of qualified applicants from this area appears limited...
...last week the President drove to Walter Reed Army Hospital to attend the swearing-in of Foster Dulles as a new $20,000-a-year special consultant to the President with full Cabinet rank. Because Dulles tires easily, the small group at the ceremony-Ike, Dulles, Nixon, Herter, Janet Dulles and a few others-sat down while the President read to Dulles this citation: "Your willingness to continue to contribute your abundant talents and unique experience to the service of the U.S. and the free world is but one more example of your magnificent spirit and devotion to the nation...
Though the distinguished visitor would not officially achieve the rank of head of state until his country withdraws its allegiance next fall to the British Crown (though not the Commonwealth), his hosts in nearby Conakry, the capital of Guinea, decided to give him a 21-gun salute anyway. In a few minutes, a cane-swinging Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana strode down the gangplank of his chartered freighter to embrace, somewhat stiffly, the President of the Republic of Guinea, youthful (37) Sékou Touré. Later, when the two men stood side by side to review the tiny...