Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lifelong disablement, require vast sums for costly care of helpless victims. The N.F.I.P. sees these targets as first of a series, hopes to conquer them by the same blitz tactics that it used against polio, then move against other diseases that cause permanent disability-with its resulting family and social problems...
Another view of educational problems was offered by Nolan Estes, a graduate student in the Administrative Career Program and currently on leave from the Public Schools of Waco, Texas. Estes urged that school administrators gain a better understanding of the social processes within the community, with the purposes of adapting educational programs to community needs...
...served as a tranquilizer during those long introspective sessions over cold tea at the Bick. The theory went like this: that Harvard was an alien place, staffed with immobile minds, sealed with several centuries of strict tradition, garlanded with unalterable standards, and cast in a peculiarly rigid social structure. In short, the Cambridge strata were well-rutted and different. Morris as one of the eager young men from elsewhere appeared in such a society and became immediately, and noticeably, uncomfortable...
Down to Work. After a social series of garden parties, tea parties and a boat trip on the Thames, the bishops this week will move into the raftered hall of London's red-turreted Lambeth Palace (the Archbishop of Canterbury's residence) and buckle down to work. Though the conference, strictly closed to outsiders, has no official, binding force on the Anglican churches, the bishops know that their decisions will carry considerable weight...
Died. Bohumil Lausman, 55, chairman of Czechoslovakia's Social Democratic Party before the Communist coup of 1948, man of many-phased, sincere but confused cold-war loyalties; in Prague. In 1946 Lausman liked the Russians; in 1947 he denounced them, but became Deputy Premier of Czechoslovakia when the Reds assumed control the next year. In 1950 he fled to the West, soon turned up in Yugoslavia, disappeared (perhaps by kidnaping) in 1953 from a pension in Austria, reappeared in Prague with a "confession" of the "spiritual suffering" he had undergone in Western Europe...