Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...endangered monuments, Egypt's Minister of Culture, Sarwat Okasha, appealed to the world's universities and foundations. Getting little response, Minister Okasha turned to UNESCO for assistance because the cost of preserving the treasures would be "exceptionally great." How great, the world discovered this week from the report of a UNESCO investigating mission, headed by U.S. Archaeologist Dr. John Otis Brew. Abu Simbel and Philae, says the UNESCO report, can be safeguarded by a system of dikes, levees and protective dams at a cost of $64 million. If any more of the 15 major temples and historic sites...
...Fleet. But the offensive he launched last February has proved in many ways the most arduous of his career. His mission: to root out wholesale pilferage and embezzlement in the 650,000-man Korean army, which has reached so enthusiastic a pitch that an irate U.S. Defense Department report said that open black-marketeering in "virtually every commodity required to support a military machine"-short of tanks and artillery-was "beyond description...
...synthetic substance that belongs to the sex hormone family but has no effect on sex characteristics and is not really a hormone* was reported last week to be the most promising new weapon in the drug treatment of breast cancer. Dr. Albert Segaloff, of New Orleans' Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, described the paradoxical chemical and its promising performance to 750 experts gathered in Washington by the Public Health Service's Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center to report progress on the most active sector of the anticancer front (TIME, July...
Have children forgotten how to entertain themselves? Last week British grownups got the lowdown from an exuberant piece of scholarship: the Oxford University Press's new Lore and Language of Schoolchildren* TV may seem to be taming the last of the world's savage tribes, report Authors lona and Peter Opie, but juvenile culture is indestructible...
Because of this, Wald's course has great significance for both the General Education program and for the teaching of all introductory science courses. One of the fundamental these of the original General Education program and the Bruner report, that a course for concentrators was not General Education, will apparently be supplanted in biology as it has been in geology...