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...corruption around him while serving as Defense Minister in the Liberal government of President Elpidio Quirino, Magsaysay agreed to bolt the Liberal Party and accept the Nationalist Party nomination for President. But in his pact with the Nationalists' José Laurel and Recto and Senator Lorenzo Tañada of the Citizen's Party, Magsaysay had made no stipulation about one term, he said. In fact, he told TIME'S James Bell last week, "Laurel and Tañada came to ask me to lead a military coup d'état. I told them...
...committee. Normally this committee would decide which of a number of plays to produce. But in 1934, President Conant requested to read A Bride for the Unicorn and decide whether or not it was too risque to produce. The play squeaked through the committee, 3 to 2, but President Ada of to appear in it. Undaunted, the Dramatic club found willing actresses outside the University, and the production, given a month later than planned, was hailed by the CRIMSON as indicative "of the vitality of the drama at Harvard...
Also discussed at the convention was a proposal for state tax reform, announced Friday by Arnold M. Soloway, assistant professor of Economics. Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, state chairman of the ADA, has asserted that both fiscal and educational fields of state government are "in desperately bad shape...
...last-minute reminder of what the Olympics lost when the Dutch withdrew (TIME, Nov. 19), Holland's lithe young (16) swimmer, Atie Voorbij, lowered the world's 100-meter butterfly record by 1.3 seconds, churned the distance in 1:10.5. Next day her teammate, Ada den Haan, 15, set a new 200-meter breaststroke record...
Construction of Ada Louise Comstock Hall, Radcliffe's new dormitory, will begin about May 1, 1957, President Wilbur K. Jordan announced yesterday. No plans have yet been made for a ground-breaking ceremony, he said...