Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This kind of applied public relations will become increasingly important to Harvard as Program-financed buildings replace ramshackle houses in the declining residential areas near the University. To meet the need for a person to sell Harvard to the city, President Pusey last summer created a new post, Administrative Assistant for Civic Affairs, and appointed to it, Charles P. Whitlock, then Senior Tutor of Dudley House...
...Shepard is hardly satisfied yet, this summer will deluge parents with letters urging them to keep children studying on their own for a head start next fall. "Why should a boy strive to overcome all obstacles and get a college degree and then have to run an elevator?" he asks. "Because we simply cannot base our possibilities on present limitations. They might be swept away tomorrow by the president of the company, and then it would be too late for preparation...
...song came drifting out of a littered yard between two tenements. The young man passing in the street stopped for a moment to listen, then turned into the yard and unslung the tape recorder he always carries over one shoulder. The children's voices recorded on that muggy summer afternoon are preserved in an album called New York 19 (Folkways). The man who recorded them is 35-year-old Tony Schwartz, folklorist with a passion for the sounds of his time and place...
When it came to choosing sites for the 1964 Olympics, the I.O.C. had much less trouble. Tokyo won the summer games with 34 of the 58 votes. Innsbruck, Austria, which barely lost to Squaw Valley as host for the 1960 winter games, was an even easier winner, with 49 votes in favor...
...times E.D.T. tranquilizer; guests are Tony Bennett, Teresa Brewer, and the Four Lads, who will fill in for Como this summer...