Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusual, self-censoring move by a student group the Harvard Law School Forum canceled a scheduled April debate featuring the left-wing novelist Howard Fast. The Forum topic, "Communism in Hollywood," was changed to "Limitations on Free Expression." Fast finally spoke at Harvard, under the auspices of the Harvard Liberal Union, but only after Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 had denounced student timidity in a letter to the Crimson, undergraduate newspaper...
Although the administrations of a number of colleges, including Colorado and Brooklyn, have abolished left-wing groups, this is the first instance on record of students themselves trying to do so. The President of the University, the Wisconsin Board of Regents, and the student council have repeatedly said the LYL chapter has a right to exist as long as it kept within the law. Wisconsin's Daily Cardinal said the YGOP had "grossly violated universally accepted principles of free discussion...
...threat is still unchanged, the Eisenhower Administration's next move must be to assure the U.S. either 1) that the Communist threat is not as great as before, or 2) that the Administration has found a more efficient way to meet it, or 3) that the projected 143-wing buildup was too big in the first place...
...supersonic speeds, Boeing Airplane Co. put into operation a wind tunnel whose 24-ft. fan is turned by two electric motors with 54,000 h.p. The fan can send air whistling through the tunnel at a maximum speed of 875 m.p.h. The tunnel can test scale-model planes with wing spans...
...varsity is counting heavily on football players Johnny Nichols and John McNamara to provide the power and stamina to hold the undefeated Britishers in check. Nichols, who is the heaviest man on the team, will help break up the Wanderers' defense, while McNamara at wing three-quarter works against their offense...