Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Human Scratch-Pad" and dermographia [extreme sensitivity of the skin-Jan. 19]: as a long sufferer of this complaint, I thought you might be interested in knowing that it had one positive aspect for me. When I was younger, nothing quite so impressed a girl on a day at the beach as emblazoning her name on my forearm in bright, raised letters. It served to cement a number of relationships. Alas, the girls get older and wiser (and more difficult to impress), and dermographic penmanship no longer does the trick...
...Senate, by a vote of 60 (47 Democrats and 13 Republicans) to 28 (18 Republicans and ten Democratic Southern conservatives), passed a catchall housing bill, calling for spending $2,675.000.000-or $1,075,000.000 more than the Administration thought necessary-on urban renewal, public housing, college housing, etc. over the next six years. Despite token cuts accepted by Senate Leader Johnson, maneuvering skillfully against the possibility of a presidential veto, the bill would still authorize spending in fiscal 1960 of up to $185 million over the Eisenhower Administration's balanced budget...
Shortly after the Liberal Union elected new officers, including Emily L. Hart-shorne '62, secretary, and Vivian M. Oppenheim '62, Radcliffe affairs chairman, the organization was notified that it had not complied with University regulations concerning mixed clubs. "We thought we had official sanction, since the Liberal Union has several Radcliffe members," Bardeen explained...
Should their report show a new attack of cancer it could mean the imminent retirement of Dulles from the No. 1 post in President Eisenhower's Cabinet. Dulles thought of quitting once before, when he underwent an operation for cancer...
...record, as chemist, as Harvard President, as advisor to the Manhattan Project, and finally as diplomat, it is perhaps surprising that his recommendations should be more practical than those of a professional man of affairs such as Admiral Rickover. Unfortunately, the builder of the atomic submarine seems to have thought more about the demands which reality places upon America than about the equipment with which we must meet this crisis. He sees very clearly that we are at the brink of disaster, that the Sputnik was not merely a fluke, and that unless a revolution takes place, our economic...