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...testified to his "master-disciple relationship" with Stalin, had spent nearly three months in Moscow in 1949 before returning to call on all Southeast Asia to seek liberation through "armed struggle" as part of the "forces headed by the Soviet Union." Added Dulles: "No one in his senses could assert that it is in China's interests to shovel its youth and material resources into the fiery furnace of Korean war to gain South Korea, an area which means little to China but which, since the czars, has been coveted by Russia because of its strategic value as against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Toward Firmer Ground | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...second permits the Council to make exceptions to this academic eligibility standard; the rule, they assert empowers the Council to prevent girls in or above Group V from running for office. A slight change in wording would eliminate this ambiguity, these members state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Council Considers Change In By-Laws Today | 3/23/1951 | See Source »

Some council members feel that merely clarifying the academic qualifications and the "exception" power is not sufficient. ity standard; the rule, they assert, council's authority to make exceptions to the eligibility rules. Others feel that the final say on whether or not individual girls in Group VI or below may run should rest with the Dean's Office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Council Considers Change In By-Laws Today | 3/23/1951 | See Source »

...given up asking questions long ago. But the parade of ice cream flavors appearing every week still has him baffled. Some of those on the receiving end of this plethora are convinced that the dining hall department is using them as a testing ground for strange new experiments. Others assert that an old eccentric gentleman left an endowment to provide all future students with his favorite ice creams--peanut brittle, cherry cocoanut, and macaroon...

Author: By Alee I. W. frank, | Title: Brass Tacks | 3/21/1951 | See Source »

...regard to the Far East is described, with the suggestion that now more than over unity in the West is imperative. "We have allies--the people who believe as we do in the rights and dignity of the individual . . . Alliances are not enough. We need union. We need to assert confidently that freedom is indivisible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Professors Ask Truman To Negotiate Atlantic Union | 1/10/1951 | See Source »

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