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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans. Yet, the word "discriminatory" does not really apply to the situation., "Hypocritical" is more fitting. Although Harvard consistently ridicules the Eisenhower administration, Secretary of Defense McElroy was awarded an honorary degree in 1958. Why? Although Harvard has turned its back on Christianity--one suspects that even President Pusey began to learn this as he had his angelic wings clipped in the Memorial Church furor--an honorary degree was awarded to no less a personage that His Eminence Cardinal Cushing...
Life has existed on earth for about one billion years. Gold points out. It began as very simple forms of microscopic size, has developed slowly until only now is it reaching a level of physical development and technological competence that will allow descendants of those microbes to travel outside their own solar system. Certainly within the next few hundred years, he holds, man will be visiting planets of other solar systems. "Most of these planets will have unsuitable conditions for us to live there freely, but if they have no life on them, it is still possible that they...
Valete in Crastinum. Thirty years ago, Dr. Albert E. Warsley, then teaching Latin in Brooklyn's St. John's Preparatory School, began printing a Latin magazine for his class. This was about as far as Dr.Warsley's publishing ambition reached. But one day in 1931 Radio Commentator Lowell Thomas called Warsley and requested a Latin translation of "So long, until tomorrow"-the Thomas sign-off line. When Warsley obliged (Valete in Crastinum), Thomas not only used it, but plugged the magazine on his show...
...place. National Biscuit Co. faced the tough task of explaining why it had to shut down two old bakeries, build a new highly automated one in Chicago. It set up a scale model, invited comment from employees on how to make the plant better. Soon after the new plant began operating, Nabisco's share of the market so expanded that employment rose to 2,400, a third more than the two old plants combined. Says a union official: "The company has to improve if it is going to stay competitive, and automation is the only...
...foolproof, seasick remedy. "You may tell the French engineer," she said when one set of plans was brought to her attention, "that if he can accomplish it, I will give him my blessing in my own name and in the name of all the ladies of England." Tunneling actually began in 1880. But Parliament was swamped with protests. An opposition pamphlet painted the lurid picture: "Dover taken, the garrison butchered, the tunnel vomiting men of all arms, London invaded, England conquered." Britain's most respected Old Soldier, Baron Wolseley, rumbled: "Surely John Bull will not endanger his birthright...