Word: standings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard can keep its hands clean while administering any program which requires an affidavit. Even if the University does not have to supply matching funds, nor receive the affidavits directly, its involvement in the NSF program is unmistakable. Unless the Corporation follows its NDEA decision with an equally vigorous stand on NSF, Harvard's policy will lack consistency. Whatever the form of administration, all disclaimer affidavits erode freedom of belief and are an insult to the academic community...
Students running the candy and cigarette counters in Harkness Commons and the Union have a tremendous advantage over House entrepreneurs, Burke pointed out, because of the volume of cigarette sales. In Harkness, for example, cigarette sales alone almost pay for the stand...
Last week, two days after Nikita's speech, the French Communist Party arose from one of those crow-eating feasts of "selfcriticism" that used to be held more regularly in Stalin's time. The French party's original stand, it now conceded, "was not quite in tune on certain points with the general analysis of the Algerian problem made . . . at the party's 14th and 15th congresses...
...pigeons, and their affinity for public statues is well-known to city dwellers. The Times of London took it upon itself to survey some of the city's monumental figures and their various states of inundation. William Ewart Gladstone: "The melancholy truth is that [he] does not stand close scrutiny these days. His bared head has been made indecently white by the birds of the Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left eye." The situation...
Nearby is an even more ethereal structure, a "tensegrity" (tension-integrity) mast, made of Monel wire and aluminum tubes, which stands 36 ft. high and weighs only 90 lbs. Bucky's "mast" has the makings of a revolution in architecture, because it puts the horizontal steel-in tension principles that apply to suspension bridges into a vertical context. The wires, in a state of tension, keep the mast unbending and rigid. The aluminum tubes, arranged like pairs of end-to-end coat hangers (see cut), push the wires apart to keep them taut. An exact balance of push...