Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard-Radcliffe U.N. Council has come out in favor of a "yes" vote on the N.S.A. referendum. A minority of the Council's Executive Board would like to record its opposition to this stand. We feel that the U.N. Council's activities should be, to quote a recent committee report, the "... dissemination of information towards the end of greater (international) understanding--and that the taking of policy stands would seriously limit this role." Only in cases where the U.N. Council is directly and formally concerned should it override this principle. Thus the Executive Board could, and in our opinion should...
From one of Nasser's clandestine propaganda stations, calling itself the Jordan People's Radio came this news report to the Arab people last week: "Eisenhower, the old man of the imperialist American dollar, visits his country's surgical hospitals every now and then to undergo some operation or other. This has gone on so long that his body has become one big lump of drugs. The ultimate treatment for a septic part of the body is amputation, and, as many patches on Eisenhower's body will eventually end him up on the city dump...
...most cheering news was a Commerce and Labor Departments report that unemployment dropped 588,000 in September to 4,111,000, the lowest point in the year and much bigger than the usual seasonal improvement. Said President Eisenhower: "This is a much larger decline than could be expected at this time of year, and reflects the accelerating rate of recovery in our economy, which began last April...
Payments to the Program for Harvard College were partly responsible for this year's record gain in capital endowment. The University received $20,485,531 this year, nearly $6 million more than in 1956-57 according to a report issued yesterday by Paul C. Cabot '21, treasurer...
...Student Council report on dining halls forecast an era of milk and honey and ice cream sauce. Since Harvard's staple is ice cream, caramel, butterscotch, chocolate and other goos would be a welcome addition. They have appeared too rarely, so far. Board rates have risen about ten per cent this this year; hopefully some of the increment will go towards a full dinner pail. A good condiment can enhance the best food and disguise the worst...