Word: states
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks after his resignation as Secretary of State, the gaunt, tired man in the presidential suite at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital struggled to hold his own. John Foster Dulles read fitfully at his books-Agatha Christie and Erie Stanley Gardner, Churchill's memoirs, tire Bible. He listened to Bach on a stereophonic hi-fi that he had donated to the hospital last December. Sometimes he tried a crossword puzzle, listened to the news on TV. chatted about events with such faithful visitors as President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian Herter, played, backgammon with his wife...
Dyke Benjamin's 9:08.5 clocking in the two-mile is overshadowed by the 8:58.9 credited to Penn State's Dick Engelbrink. However, Benjamin is well rested, and he will probably be running against Engelbrink without the exhausting effects of a previous mile race. No one really knows what Benjamin can do if he concentrates on the two-mile; the result may be a pleasant surprise for the Crimson...
...Penn State's Ed Moran should dominate the mile, since he has run 4:02.1 to lead the nation's collegians in this event. The Crimson's Jed Fitzgerald could place, however, Moran, with a 1:49.6 to his credit, and teammate Chick Kink, who has done 1:49.8, should finish...
...position to have to urge the value of his own contributions." But he feels that a more flexible retirement plan would not force a man to leave his work. Bridgman's high pressure experiments and equipment are now in the capable hands of William Paul, Assistant Professor of Solid State Physics...
...Professor is also an associate at Adams House and is invited to eat meals there. But he only goes on "state occasions" since he now knows very few students in the House. This is his "chief regret" about retirement. He seess very few students now and misses the contact he used to have with them. When he was still teaching he and Mrs. Schlesinger used to hold open tea at their home on Sunday afternoons, and his students were welcome to drop in at any time. Since his retirement, most of the students he used to know have graduated, thus...