Word: term
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report itself glosses over many of the harsh criticisms which have been leveled against the HSA. While admitting that many of the agency directors "could not be called needy in any sense of the term," it offers no plan to correct this, but merely suggests that the practice stop. The policy of having agency directors pick their own successors with a rubber stamp approval from the board of directors is mentioned, but there follows no discussion of the possible harmful implications of this procedure. No attempt is made to evaluate the high prices of such groups as the milk...
...student might be allowed to enter in the fall, or he might switch into such a group at mid-years. A student in Social Sciences 1, for example, who did well the first term, or who, in his section man's opinion was qualified, might transfer into any one of several seminars being run in the Social Sciences area. Such seminars should do work not covered in later courses; they should not be specialized history courses or English sections. Linkages of history and sociology, economic theory and psychology in the Soc Sci area; combinations of literature and philosophy...
...noble in principle and inadequate in practice. If there were a nucleus of discussion at the meetings, instead of desultory questions or a third lecture by the section man, actuality might approach potential. One method of stimulating discussion might be effected by requiring concise, one-page papers throughout the term on questions suggested by the week's readings. One of the term's longer papers might be dropped and a requirement of six to eight short expositions substituted. Students could hand these in on weeks when they chose. Exercises like this would eliminate the need for the puerile quizzes used...
TOKYO, April 27--Liu Shao-chi, 61, a Moscow-trained theorist with a reputation for getting things done, became president of Red China today. In succeeding to one of Mao Tze-tung's old jobs for a four year term, the tall, light-haired son of a peasant family strengthened his status as heir apparent to the Chinese Communist Party leadership that Mao, 65, retains in the Peiping hierarchy. Peiping radio hailed Liu as "a leader second only to Mao Tze-tung...
...Castro took 15 minutes to denounce Costa Rica's Figueres as a "bad friend, a bad democrat and a bad revolutionary." Apparently freshly filled in on Costa Rican political gossip, Castro said that Figueres "left the presidency of the republic with more land than when he began his term. I will leave with less land...