Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When thirteen students were admitted to the College as Sophomores in the fall of 1955, many spokesmen of prep schools felt that the problem of bored and apathetic Freshmen was well on the way to solution. The new program was simultaneously hailed as a major step in abbreviating the process of professional education. And to those who viewed the Advanced Placement program as higher education's most powerful tool for reforming the secondary schools, Sophomore Standing seemed a revolutionary reward for schools willing to raise their standards...
Thank God for men like Newton Minow [May 19]. The argument used by spokesmen for the TV industry could well be used by the dope peddler: "I'm only giving them what they want." Since a great mass of our population is made up of uneducated, unimaginative people, who would sit in front of the TV set and watch beep signals if that was the only program available, the leaders of the industry have the definite responsibility to set standards at a high level...
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's proposed "cooling-off period" was not a popular idea among those involved in the Freedom Rider movement, CORE spokesmen told a crowd of 300 in the Boston Common yesterday...
...Complaints. The reaction from the hemisphere spokesmen has been immediate, strong and favorable. For the first time since the Cuban invasion, the Mexican government let it be known that it was "100% in accord with Kennedy." Chile's conservative President Jorge Alessandri was openly enthusiastic about the promised "thoroughgoing social reform," and Argentina's Arturo Frondizi said that "there can be no social development without economic development." All these were promising signs for Latin America's long-term good, but if the U.S. expected any immediate dividends from its diplomatic attempts to retrieve the Cuban disaster...
...Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, and Eric Bentley, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, telegramed the Council yesterday afternoon requesting a meeting "to consider the best way in which to carry forward discussion." They emphasized that they are not spokesmen for the 70 professors who signed the statement, and said that they have not yet studied the best way of conducting the debate...