Word: recently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catch up with the times four years ago with the recognition of "the other half"--the females. Helen Keller's award in 1955 was followed in 1957 by a doctorate for Lady Barbara Ward Jackson. Last year, both Nadia Boulanger (Mus. D.) and Eleanor Glueck (S.D.) were honored. These recent awards silenced many criticisms of the "discriminatory" system followed before 1955. By making Harvard honoraries open to both sexes, the Corporation continued the process of liberalization of degrees that started with John Winthrop and his 1773 LL.D...
...issue, TIME ran a reproduction of De Kooning standing in front of one of his recent paintings, the caption reading: "De Kooning and Merritt Parkway." In the plate, TIME somehow expanded the original painting by adding a foot or more to its top and sides. Under the circumstances the caption might have read: "De Kooning and Merritt Parkway Extension...
...with Halleck, and with Illinois' Everett Dirksen replacing Knowland in the Senate, the Republicans in the White House and on Capitol Hill work as an effective team. The weekly legislative conference has passed from pain to pleasure. "These sessions are getting to be so much fun." Ike said recently, "that they're running overtime." In passing out praise for the change that means so much to his Administration, the President points straight at House Leader Halleck. Wrote he in a recent note to Halleck: "You are a political genius...
...happy with them as they are with Rome. After a ten-man show of U.S. artists opened at the Palazzo Venezia. II Messaggero hailed the Americans in Rome as part of "an important contemporary artistic movement." added with pride: "Hundreds of young Americans have come here in recent years without going to Paris first...
Yankee Invasion. U.S. investments in Old World stocks have soared since the recent currency liberalization made it easier to repatriate profits in dollars. Heavy U.S. buying in May provided the punch that lifted such stocks as the Anglo-Dutch Unilever from $143 to $153, The Netherlands' Philips' Lamps from $158 to $176, West Germany's AEG (electrical equipment) from $83 to $91. and Bayer (chemicals) from $93 to $105. One reason for particular U.S. interest in Germany: if a foreign investor holds his West German stock for more than three months, he pays no taxes, thus...