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...letter to Cabot, Ginn replied "If great achievements are to be the criteria for appointment despite mistakes in judgment (even in a matter of espionage), why not select Alger Hiss and Richard Whitney to serve on the corporation...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: Alumnus Quits Council, Objects to Oppenheimer | 1/5/1956 | See Source »

...Molotov made it only too clear at Geneva that the decision not to threaten the world with war did not include any serious intention to lift the iron curtain. Clearly we must take it for granted that the Russian leaders will follow the usual lines of political warfare and select their facts to suit their audiences. It is conceivable that Mr. Khrushchev did not realize that the British have for at least two generations ceased to be crass enough to call the Burmese "barbarians." But that does not alter the fact that the Russians undoubtedly won an immense response from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KHRUSHCHEV'S LIES NEW SOVIET LOW | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...administration of so large a gift solely to the institutions themselves. "It is the view of the trustees of the foundation," said Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27, Ford Trustee and President of Harvard's Board of Overseers, "that creative scholarly work is best done by creators who select their own tasks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: There's a Gift in Your Future | 12/14/1955 | See Source »

...return their proofs to the Yearbook office, 52 Dunster St., Robert O. Tyler '56, president of the Yearbook, announced yesterday. After Tuesday, they will have to bring them to the Harvard Studio, 669 Boylston St. If the proofs are not returned to the studio by Friday, Yearbook editors will select one of the pictures, good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Must Return Pictures to Yearbook | 11/22/1955 | See Source »

...GRADED LUMBER will help do-it-yourself carpenters select the grades they need. Western lumber mills (which produce about one-third of all U.S. soft wood) plan to abandon the old, complicated system of grading by numbers, will use names instead: construction, standard, utility or economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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