Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louis Kronenberger, drama critic for Time Magazine, will teach two English courses and will live in Eliot House during the Spring term, Walter A. Bate '46, chairman of the Department of English, disclosed yesterday. Kronenberger was named the first Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of English in September...
Michigan: Democrat "Soapy" Williams, who has the habit, was tidily re-elected to his sixth term...
William Fife Knowland had been U.S. Senator from California for 13 years, was the Republican leader on Capitol Hill, and almost certainly could have been re-elected for another term. But that was not enough for big. bullheaded Bill Knowland. He wanted to be Governor of California, and he had a longer-range eye on the presidency of the U.S. He went home, crudely shoved aside Governor Goodwin Knight, forcing Knight to run for the Senate. Bitterly split by the Knowland power play, the California G.O.P. organization tore itself to shreds, and Knowland was buried in the ruins by pleasant...
Half a continent away in Bonham, Texas, at the same time, another Washington prime mover was also scrutinizing the near future. From where he stood, Sam Rayburn could see in it a Democratic Congress and another term (his ninth) as Speaker of the House. But he saw as well something of the same aims and ends that motivated Dwight Eisenhower. Therefore, said Mr. Sam, there will not be "bad blood" between the President and the new Congress. "We're not going to hate Eisenhower bad enough for us to change our principles...
Higher Margin? Strangely, though many victims of the radium-tonic craze were made severely ill, some lost limbs and a few died as a direct result of poisoning, most of the long-term survival cases now under study appear to be in good health. Especially notable is the fact that among the 160 so far examined, Dr. Evans has found not a single case of leukemia. The continuing study at M.I.T., broadening out since doctors all over the U.S. were alerted by the A.M.A. Journal to search their memories and patients' histories for radium-craze cases, is expected...