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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study of radioactivity in foods, the Food and Drug Administration hit upon a rare source of canned foods unquestionably packed before the advent of the atomic era: supplies cached in the Antarctic by the Shackleton expedition (1908-09) and the Scott expedition (1910-13). While waiting for the arrival of the long-buried samples, the Government scientists went to work on early-arriving samples of powdered milk left by Rear Admiral Byrd at Little America...
...nondenominational. evangelical Philippines Crusade, which sprang up in the wake of Billy Graham's 1956 tour through Southeast Asia. The evangelists, he says, are a ticking time bomb. "The doctrinal havoc, the personal tensions, the communal wreckage will come later as Stateside purse strings become puppet strings even upon the pleasant, well-meaning young men directing the crusade . . . How brief the independence of churches which, having pulled away from mission-board paternalism, flung themselves down before fundamentalist imperialism...
...born, nationalism is stripped to raw nerve ends. "See it in all its hypersensitivity there, and you will understand it better in its gentler manifestations all over the globe." But "suddenly, in the place where American missions had least to do with the development of Christianity, you come upon Protestantism with the structure and stature which most Americans. I am sure, assume for it everywhere." What they need most from the U.S. is teachers to train a new generation of self-governors...
...definition, boys and girls who go steady dance together exclusively (cutting in is frowned upon), sip their sodas, absorb their double features and spin their platters in each other's company or not at all. Steady-going girls indicate their unavailability in various ways, ranging from the old-fashioned fraternity pins and class rings to certain arrangements of pigtails or bobby pins. Parents often encourage these relationships as stabilizing or "cute." But Catholic authorities view them as a danger to morals so serious that last month the principal of St. Anthony's parochial high school in Bristol, Conn...
...Board of Overseers, I believe I detect a slight bias. It appears to me that you have chosen to emphasize a few seemingly unsavory elements in Bunker's record and have tried your best to neglect mentioning the many achievements which are to his credit. You seem to dwell upon the connection of Col. Bunker with "so-called right-wing causes" and, particularly, with the suggestion that his nomination is an expression of alumni dissatisfaction with the appointment of the James Lecturer, Oppenheimer. I could not avoid the conclusion that the CRIMSON was, in this instance, trying to effect...