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...spokesman for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 said yesterday that the project "will need more square footage" now that "the concept of a Library has been widened to include the concept of an institute." He noted, however, that square footage can be increased "by building up or down as well...
...also said that the advisory group considers the two-acre site near Kresge Hall across the Charles River to be too small for what it thinks the memorial should be. "The concept of an institute, where students can come and study, makes it far greater than had been contemplated (by President Kennedy)," the attorney general commented...
...name of a chain in its 42 hotels; it prefers to let such homey hospices as San Francisco's St. Francis, Seattle's Olympic and the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs breathe with individual atmosphere. But to make sure that efficiency and profits stay up while the chain concept is played down, Seattle-based President Edward E. Carlson, 52, works mostly on the road, usually as his own guest. Carlson started 35 years ago as a pageboy, worked his way from front desk to executive office. He took time out as president to run the successful Seattle World...
...Israel Zangwill wrote a play "The Melting Pot" and introduced the phrase into the national vocabulary. Although his words were new, the idea was not. From Crevecoeur on, Americans have embraced the concept of the melting pot to affirm their peculiar destiny and to reassure themselves that despite the diversity of its people the United States is or will be one nation indivisible. In Beyond the Melting Pot Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan challenge the very idea of the melting pot through an examination of the Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City...
William Liller '48, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy (Telescopic observation of the emission component of an ionized calcium line in cool stars, at the Cambridge University Observatory). John Rawis, professor of Philosophy (An analytical study of the concept of justice, at Harvard...