Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After summer school at both Heidelberg and Grenoble ("I wanted to learn French and German, but didn't until somewhat later") Sigmund came to Harvard, and attended GSAS in political theory along with Miles, Hoffman, Brzezinski, and Mavrinac. The next year ("I spent the summer as a car hop in a drive-in restaurant") he began assisting in Gov 1, and the year following was given residence at Dunster and additional work with Gov 106. Then after his third year here he received a grant for study towards his thesis--study which would take him back to Europe. And Sigmund...
...summer of '54 Sigmund organized the NSA international student relations seminar here in Cambridge ("I had been interested in NSA as an undergraduate, but only mildly active"), and at the NSA congress in August was elected international vice president, "really a full time job." He tried keeping tutorial through the fall but found the combination impossible. "I remember calling once from Chicago to cancel a meeting." And anyway Sigmund wanted to go to South Africa and write a report on segregation in the universities there. "I got as far as Europe, but the South African government refused me a visa...
...That summer Sigmund attended student meetings in both England and Finland. "The Finnish was the best, since there was some attempt by Communist front groups to take over the World University Service. And it was Geneva talk time, too." After a third meeting--this one in Canada--he returned to Europe and the start of the thesis...
Sigmund did other research at Heidelberg, Paris, Cologne ("I worked best in Cologne; Paris was lovely, Cologne was duller") and in the summer went to Tunisia for a student meeting. "The Russians were terribly active. One fellow constantly took notes on everything, even on rug factories." Then came Yugoslavia and a seminar on the unification of the student world. The Chinese were there in full force ("Their leader spoke perfect English learned on a U.S. air force base during the war"), and one of the Russian "student editors" who visited the United States recently was a member of the Soviet...
Macmillan said on arrival he was convinced there should be talks with the Soviets this summer. He urged the West to adopt a flexible position...