Word: watson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strength came from a new move into the old blue-chip favorites by big investors who were sitting on the sidelines waiting for the big board to settle down. Buyers rallied to International Business Machines after President Thomas J. Watson announced a 3-for-2 split and an increased dividend; they bid for Ford after Ford Foundation successfully sold an additional 2,000,000 shares of Ford common without trouble. At the same time, such speculative favorites as General Development and Universal Controls (TIME, March 30) ran into waves of selling, were sporadically held off the market when trading volume...
...Presidential elections provide a period crisis for campus politicos. When there is a red-white-and-blue button to wear, a sticker to put in the windows, a speech to hear, a leaflet to hand out, then students flock to the clubs. Often, new groups are formed. Dean Watson fully expects a Students for Nixon, for Kennedy, and for whoever else strikes the student fancy, to appear in the next year...
Agassiz Theatre has also been suggested as a site for the center, but the building is in great demand now, and will continue to be at least until the new theatre is built, according to Watson...
When the site is the finally decided upon, Watson pointed out, there will still be several problems involved. The most "difficult one" will be liquor, since Radcliffe does not allow liquor in the college. Hours and finances will have to be studied also, he said...
...Although Watson believed it would be foolish to begin building an Activities Center at this time, he said that a large, frame house would be sufficient to serve as headquarters for merged Harvard-Radcliffe activities. Several small rooms for club offices and a large reception room for musical programs and social functions would be necessary, he said...