Word: boston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston's famed Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, 73, is almost as eager as was Captain Ahab to sink a harpoon into the mightiest leviathan of the deep, but for a different reason: he wants to record its electrocardiogram. Dr. White has logged the ECG of a small (only 1¼ ton) Beluga whale in Alaska (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952), but has been thwarted in efforts to get his electrodes into the bigger grey whale off California. Last week he was within a heartbeat of an equally desirable prize, and missed by a fluke...
Radcliffe students will participate this summer as part of an international exchange program sponsored by the International Association of Students in Economic and Commercial Sciences (AIESEC). 'Cliffies will "solicit Greater Boston businessmen for training positions for selected foreign student" as part of the program, said Mrs. Deane Lord, director of the Radcliffe news office...
...times this position seemed risky; often it was nearly untenable. But Lowell always maintained it, and especially so after 1919 when he published his now-classic interpretation of academic freedom. In the middle of the Boston police strike of that year, Harold J. Laski, a young government instructor at the University, became somewhat carried away with his own enthusiasm in addressing the striking policemen's wives. Exuberantly, Laski praised the uprising as an example of pluralistic liberty in the finest tradition...
...Play in Boston League...
...five have been keeping in inshape between regular games by playing in the "A" division of the Boston Metropolitan Squash League. It has been over five years since the Crimson was able to finish on top in the Metropolitan competition, but this year it has already swept the first of two winter tournaments. If the Harvard players do not win the second, they will play the victors in a tie-breaker next March to determine the League champion...