Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election is held in Germany, some excitable correspondents cable that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer faces a precarious vote of confidence. The fact is, Der Alte has the largest parliamentary majority of any political leader in any major West European country. Local setbacks to his party at best only suggest a trend (as do similar elections in the U.S.), but they cannot bring him down. Last week 9,000,000 West Germans went to the polls in Hesse and Bavaria. Adenauer's Christian Democrats lost some strength in Bavaria but kept control of the local legislature; in Hesse, they and other...
Slowly the Communists are losing what was once a near stranglehold on Italian labor. In 1949 the CGIL (Communist-run labor federation) mustered more than 90% of Italy's union workers; today the Red membership has declined to about 60%. This hopeful trend is being accelerated by a new, hardheaded policy of the U.S. Embassy in Rome, through its control of offshore procurement in Italy (the equipping of NATO forces through U.S. purchases abroad...
...like others, was unsuccessfully fighting a trend which began in 1879 and has culminated today in coordinate Radcliffe-Harvard education. David McCord's informal history of the Annex traces this gradual integration with the University, but concludes that by its individuality the College is still "anchored against the whole teaching force of Harvard...
...Gifts fluctuate a great deal, and it wouldn't be wise to see any trend in the big jump in capital donations," Eugene G. Kraetzer '29, Recording Secretary of the University, commented yesterday. He added that the capital gift total included a bequest for $844,000 and another for $597,000. "But you can't always depend on such gifts," he said...
Contradicting a survey in the New York Times, William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History and head of the Research Center, said that the University had not followed the national trend which indicates that 35 percent fewer students in American universities are studying Slavic languages in 1954 than...