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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henri DeBayle, chairman of the Student Council's NSA committee, is satisfied with Harvard's showing, but he doubts that the petition will have any real effect. A similar petition in 1952 helped stop a similar segregation drive, but De-Bayle pointed out that the current prime minister, Dirk Strijdom, has a firmer apartheid policy than his predecessor, and cares less for world opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over 1000 Students Sign Plea Against Segregation | 3/12/1957 | See Source »

Half a world apart, two new U.S. envoys observed similar diplomatic traditions in their first official meetings with heads of state. In London U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John Hay Whitney, just short of 60 years after his grandfather John Hay took over the post, hied himself to Buckingham Palace, there presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...pretty sorry spectacle. We feel sorry for almost everyone concerned. For Mr. Eisenhower, because he has a cough and hearing trouble; for Lennie, because he has a basic lack of security; and for the Republicans, because they are just beginning to recover from a similar fiasco in Cambridge. Fortunately, there is a way out. Mr. Eisenhower, who intimated that he had not found a federal post suitable for Hall, might consider having the present sheriff of Nassau County promoted, so that Len could get his old job back. That way everybody would be happy, or almost everybody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boom or Bust | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

...loan project has attracted attention in other states. In New York, a bill to establish a "higher education assistance corporation" has administration approval. Groups in Maine, Rhode Island and Connecticut have expressed interest in seeking similar legislation in these states...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Founded to Aid Mass. Students in Obtaining Bank Loans | 3/5/1957 | See Source »

Investigators have known since 1947 that a single injection of LSD in human volunteers causes a transient psychosis similar to schizophrenia, but so far they have been unable to discover how LSD affects the human brain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research in Clam Hearts Suggests Clue to Reasons for Schizophrenia | 3/5/1957 | See Source »

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