Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second time* in his 6½ years in the White House, President Eisenhower called newsmen to a special conference in his oval, green-walled office. Lewis Strauss, said Ike, reading a statement that he had scrawled out in black ink shortly before, is "a man who in war and in peace has served his nation loyally, honorably and effectively under four different Presidents. I am losing a truly valuable associate in the business of government. More than this-if the nation is to be denied the right to have as public servants in responsible positions men of his proven character...
...Spanish and a reading knowledge of German and Portuguese. Now head of the modern language department in North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave's grandson, one of five accomplished children of a Methodist minister. His brother E. Frederic is a White House administrative officer (Special Projects), brother William is a Regular U.S. Army sergeant in Germany, brother Eugene works for the Hackensack (N.J.) Board of Education...
Washington's answer is that 1) there is no special U.S.-British partnership, and 2) France cannot get into it. It hopes not to antagonize De Gaulle but to counter his demands with sweetly reasonable explanations of the impossibility of complying with them. Those who dealt with the general in World War II know that such tactics have never before persuaded De Gaulle to abandon what he considers legitimate national goals...
Army patrols still make periodic rounds, and Moslem taxi drivers must have their passengers fill out special destination forms if they are to be taken outside the city limits. But in Algiers' dark, conspiratorial bistros, the talk these days is more likely to be about "les affaires" than assassinations. De Gaulle has made the army his chief economic arm in raising Moslem living standards, and fat army contracts for roads and schools-plus Saharan oil investments-have spread a new prosperity across Algeria...
Harvard students, said President Nathan Pusey in a baccalaureate address, should have "the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarrassment.'' Some clues to what the unembarrassed Harvardman may have in mind were offered last week in a special supplement to the commencement edition of the Harvard Crimson, the results of an 82-question survey of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. Notable items...