Word: system
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the recognition of "the other half"--the females. Helen Keller's award in 1955 was followed in 1957 by a doctorate for Lady Barbara Ward Jackson. Last year, both Nadia Boulanger (Mus. D.) and Eleanor Glueck (S.D.) were honored. These recent awards silenced many criticisms of the "discriminatory" system followed before 1955. By making Harvard honoraries open to both sexes, the Corporation continued the process of liberalization of degrees that started with John Winthrop and his 1773 LL.D...
...believe in job security for teachers. But a Southern paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal, said it more accurately: "It is significant for all the South in showing that even in a community as emotion-tossed as Little Rock, a majority of the voters in time will prefer a school system with some integration to no schools...
...cooperative unity sounded suspiciously like a fancy phrase for doing nothing. But since 1953, European railways have pooled freight cars as U.S. railroads do, now have some 200,000 cars marked EUROP roaming one another's tracks. Another joint project soon to be established is Eurocontrol-an integrated system of air-navigational control...
Delouvrier has also ordered a complete overhaul of the regroupment system, under the scrutiny of teams of doctors, engineers and agricultural experts. Last week, in an event unique in French clerical history, the heads of the French Protestant and Roman Catholic churches issued a joint appeal for French aid to Algerian D.P.s, as a helpless people entitled to aid-even while French soldiers make war on, and are killed by, other Algerians in the hills...
...Kenya, where officials hoped the whole thing would blow over soon, compensation (between $300 and $600) was promised to families of the victims and the government announced that a commission from Britain would study Kenya's prison-camp system. Last week authorities let Kenya newspapermen fly into the remote Hola camp for a firsthand look. But they were not allowed to see the one-acre inner enclosure where the toughest of the prisoners remain. Reason: scores of the inmates are now on a hunger strike...