Word: specialized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special U.N. subcommittee had reported that it could find no positive proof of actual aggression from Communist North Viet Nam (TIME, Nov. 16), and Russia crowed that Laos' charges had collapsed "like a card castle." At this point, Hammarskjold quietly announced that he himself would fly to get "independent and full knowledge" of what was going on in Laos and though the Russians bluntly declared that Hammarskjold's trip would only "further complicate the situation," he went...
...Robinson, vice president of the St. Louis transit system, plays the second flute while his wife is a timpanist and his 23-year-old son a French horn player. The rehearsal schedule is heavy: six 2½-hour rehearsals for each of four concerts. What gives the Philharmonic its special quality? "They are amateurs," said Guest Conductor Van Remoortel last week, "in the old sense of the word-'people in love with something.' This group happens to be in love with music...
...SATURDAY SHOW. Special program about Africa...
...week later, Gene did decide to attend lectures for two days at least. Each of his professors made a special point of greeting him and saying (in more or less the same words) "Congratulations. Now you will begin to learn again." They sounded to Gene like television announcers, but he decided that it would be fun, occasionally, to go to classes. He particularly liked to pretend that the students were dominoes when, in unison, their heads and hands toppled down to inscribe the lecturer's latest truth...
Dean Bundy has now rejected a suggestion by a special Faculty committee which would re-establish the department. Calling for a staff with three permanent appointees plus several graduate assistants and cartographers, the committee's report asked for too much too soon. It has been estimated that establishment of a new chair costs $400,000--and the proposal for three permanent appointments, in addition to a staff, is impossibly expensive. Until the cost problem can be solved, any plans for geography should be shelved...