Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Silverman, Truman is still working on arrangements for a stay at the University and will let the two organizations know if such plans materialize. It is fairly definite, however, that Truman will not make the trip until late in the term, if at all, Leary said...
...England college presidents yesterday protested--some of them bitterly--the way in which the National Defense Student Loan Program recently allotted grants for long-term student loans. In Massachusetts, for example, the Program simply awarded to each institution about 10 per cent of the amount it requested, thus rewarding those that asked for the most, and penalizing those that made smaller applications...
...voguish term "missile gap" unfortunately seems an accurate summary of our position compared to the Soviets'. According to our Secretary of Defense, Neil McElroy, there is little need to worry; we are adequately supplied with the latest weapons. But the Soviets claim they are already mass producing ICBM's; Senator Stuart Symington has introduced figures which reveal a large Soviet lead; Werner von Braun reports that we are three years behind the Russians in developing our missiles, and intelligence estimates themselves show that the United States is soon going to fall well behind the U.S.S.R. in its missile arsenal...
Kronenberger is drama editor for Time magazine, Sophie Tucker Professor of Theater Arts at Brandeis, and a visiting professor at Harvard for the spring term. He is teaching two courses: one on modern stage comedy ("It seems to complement Chapman's 'Drama Since Ibsen'; we have very little overlap.") and the other on the "Literature of Worldliness" ("By worldliness I mean something more than just manners--something that also involves the motivation of social life and the social scene."). Together these two courses imply a great deal about the professor and his interests...
Despite its request for $250,000, the University yesterday received a grant of only $26,807 for long-term student loans under the National Defense Education Act. The money is to assure that "no student of ability will be denied an opportunity for higher education because of financial need...