Word: topic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columnist Dorothy Thompson and Boston attorney Faris Malouf questioned the legitimacy of Israel at the Law Forum last night. The topic for the evening was "Can Israel Survive...
...first of eight sessions, two alumni and a current Busy School student will discuss the topic, "Anybody can get a job, but. . ." They will be concerned mainly with job objectives: what to consider when looking...
They discussed America, on which topic Santayana showed surprisingly great interest. "I believe he thought of himself as an American, and as belonging to American literature," Miller said. Santayana was extremely worried about the spread of Communism, which he though might bring the end of the world...
...among humans (verdict: unisexual reproduction, common in insects, is unlikely to be achieved by women, but it would cause a dickens of a problem if it should be). ¶ The Interparliamentary Union, in Bern, Switzerland, attracted 350 junketing parliamentarians from 33 nations, including Senator Estes Kefauver (see PEOPLE). Chief topic: a Universal Parliament. The majority was for it, but old Tom Connally of Texas, retiring chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sturdily announced: "If there had been one world government, the Continental Congress, the French Revolution and the Latin American Republics would not have been possible...
Since then, the question of whether Hickman jumped or was pushed, coaxed, shoved, or mauled, aided by a conspicuous silence from Yale's usually loquacious Director of Athletics and Hickman, has virtually replaced the weather as New England's favorite topic of conversation...