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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean of Women, Elizabeth B. Kelly, is a warm, realistic woman who approaches her problem in a highly practical way. She came to Middlebury after World War II, during which she had to protect 21 girls from over a thousand men on a base in New Guinea. Noting that a diploma is only so good as a school's reputation, she says, "We of my sex want the privileges of a double standard without any of the responsibilities...
...major foundations, and they are radically different from the conclusions of the Cox Committee of 1952. This earlier committee, after long investigations, had observed that the officers of the major charitable trusts recognized their public obligations, and noted that only a few of the countrys three thousand foundation were under subversive influence...
...unfortunate that the people who made the film had no idea at all of the nature of idealism. This defect has long troubled the moviemakers, a group of people fatally fascinated by what they do not understand. Such unrequited love once resulted in Communist screen-writers who made a thousand dollars a week; now it takes the somewhat more dangerous form of pictures like "Executive Suite...
...biggest newspaper in the Middle East is Cairo's Al Misri (The Egyptian). Taken over in 1936 by Publisher Mahmoud Aboul Fath for a few thousand dollars, it was quickly converted into the official organ of the nationalistic Wafd Party; circulation rose to 100,000 and Al Misri became a financial success as well as a powerful political force. But Publisher Fath was more interested in business than in newspapering. In Cairo, his younger brother Hussein Aboul Fath has been running Al Misri and the family's chain of other newspapers and magazines, while Owner Mahmoud lived...
...close-knit, intimate college of a thousand students, whose social life is dominated by a fraternity system, certain standards of conduct have inevitably arisen. Yet despite the weekends, at Amherst the emphasis is not solely on a social existence. It is rather a compromise on the "balanced life." The standard is pushed by the administration and adhered to by the student body. The feeling is that one should be adaptable. One should drink, but not too much, take girls out, hold a minimum of moral scruples, go out for athletics, try out for a position on one of the literary...