Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liberals can point to Truman's victory in 1948 in spite of the four southern states that voted for the Dixiecrat Thurmond-Wright ticket. Further, the prospect of a party split has its appetizing aspects for the liberal wing of the party. A Democratic victory in 1960 achieved without the South could deprive these rebels of patronage and important committee places. This exclusion of the Dixiecrats from top party positions did not occur in 1948, but there is greater pressure in the party now for a tougher attitude towards splitting the recalcitrant South...
Construction has begun on the Refectory wing of the Radcliffe Graduate Quadrangle and it is scheduled to be ready for use by September, 1960. Because the new Refectory is the final part of the Quadrangle, it marks the completion of a major part of Radcliffe's Ten Year Development Plan...
...Refectory wing will be named in honor of Mrs. Bernice B. Cronkhite, Dean of the Graduate School, who will retire this year after 36 years of service to Radcliffe. Dean Cronkhite will continue her duties as vice-President of the College, however...
...addition to a kitchen and dining room which will serve all resident students in the Quadrangle, the Refectory wing will contain rooms for 28 graduate students. It is expected that students will continue to live in Buckingham and Founder Houses, Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of Instruction, said recently...
...Central African Federation when Nyasaland and the two Rhodesias were linked together in 1953. His credentials to discuss Central Africa were that "I have only lived there 48 years," and that he knows more about the subject than "itinerant politicians" who, he said, prowl about Africa, writing for left-wing newspapers and stirring up the natives. Visiting M.P.s such as Laborite John Stonehouse ("really quite harmless, except that he was extremely ignorant") had been completely taken in by the Africans, who "until they are very much advanced are all liars." When the hubbub in the House subsided, His Lordship went...