Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding the cover of Khrushchev and Americana, it was a pleasant surprise to see the John Carter Brown gate of Brown University. However, your background sketch on Artist Safran failed to mention any reason why he chose to paint the gate and Sayles Hall in the background. Did he have any reason...
...policy, Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon last week had a stern message to deliver about at least one troublous area: Red China and Formosa. His speech, delivered in Manhattan at the twelfth annual conference of the Far East-America Council of Commerce and Industry, came against the background of Red China's saber-rattling tenth anniversary fete fortnight ago, when Communist Defense Minister Lin Piao, with Khrushchev on hand, condemned the U.S., proclaimed that nobody would be permitted to interfere in Peking's "liberation" of Formosa...
Iain Norman Macleod, 45, Minister of Labor. Neither wealthy nor of aristocratic background, affable, bright-eyed Iain Macleod is believed by Tory leaders to have a special knack for reflecting the opinions of the middle class, added considerably to his political luster by correctly insisting that last week's election should be fought on domestic economic issues. An instinctive political animal, Macleod has been ambitiously reading up on Colonial Office policies and problems, but Macmillan may well decide he is still needed in the Labor Ministry to cope with Britain's unions. Either way, his name...
...Student Backgrounds Present Dilemma Faced with a huge stack of applications, and subject to intense pressures from within the College, the Dean of Admissions must maintain a host of balances. Perhaps the most controversial balance is that between students with superior academic preparation, and the less prepared, but no less brilliant "diamonds-in-the-rough" students whose pre-college background has failed to provide an atmosphere of learning...
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