Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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August 6, 3 p.m., Lecture, '"Friedrich Schiller and Ideal Drama," Stuart P. Atkins, in Burr Hall B; 8:30 p.m., lecture "On the Theatre," Robert Whitehead, executive producer, Producers Theatre, in Lowell Lecture Hall...
According to the 75,000-word Devlin report, Nyasaland's London-appointed governor, Sir Robert Armitage, was justified in declaring an emergency last March: "The government had to act or abdicate." But the report condemned the excesses of police and special constables for what followed: 51 Africans killed, 79 more injured, hundreds clapped into jail without trial. Furthermore, Devlin and his fellow investigators found no evidence of a murder plot against thousands of Europeans, as the Colonial Office had alleged, and pointed out that not one single European was killed. "When the time came to prepare the justification...
...secretary's mother, interviewed by Neurologists David D. Daly and Robert E. Yoss. said that she had been "fighting sleep all of my life." She could stay awake only while active ("If I sit down, I'm lost"), so she had to walk around the room all the time when she had guests. She fell asleep while playing cards. The diagnosis was narcolepsy (from the Greek narke, stupor, and lepsis, seizure). Relatively rare, its cause unknown, narcolepsy was not even known to run in families until the Mayo Clinic compiled records on more than 200 cases...
...tell the boy to go to church." But last week the American Civil Liberties Union was yelling foul. The spirit of the Constitution had been violated, said A.C.L.U.'s Northern California Director Ernest Besig, and he called upon the writings of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson for proof: "No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess, by word or act, their faith therein." The San Francisco Chronicle also held Eyman out of line, thought another judge might force...
...other workers -miners from West Virginia to Minnesota, sailors and longshoremen on the Great Lakes, teamsters throughout the East and Middle West. The Government is also a victim: a prolonged strike in steel is expected to cause revenue losses of $45 million a week. Said Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson: "A long strike could reduce revenues which could not be recovered in fiscal 1960 and could therefore contribute to a budget deficit...