Word: generally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pipes & Pathans. Six hours out of Turkey, he landed in the brassy, brilliant sun at Karachi's airport to be greeted by Pakistan's President, blunt, Sandhurst-trained General Mohammed Ayub Khan. Together they rode into the city in an open white Cadillac, past half a million cheering people-women in veils or tentlike burgas, tens of thousands of schoolchildren waving flags, armed sailors and soldiers carefully spaced to prevent unruly exuberance. Down the freshly cleaned streets they drove, past prairies of rubble still redolent with the smell of refugees, even though special squads had worked all night...
...suit, begun in December, 1958, in the name of Attorney General Edward F. McCormack, Jr., who is responsible for public trusts, charges Harvard with failure to discharge its duties as sole Trustee of the Arboretum. The dispute arose when books and plants were removed from the grounds of the institution in Jamaica Plain, to a new, University-owned building in Cambridge...
...removal was carried out in 1954 after the former Attorney General, the late George Fingold, found no violation of trust in the matter. It involved recataloguing and storing the material in the building constructed to house the botanical collections belonging to the University. When the transfer took place, the Arboretum was left with books and specimens necessary, in the Corporation's view, to the effective operation of the Arboretum as a research facility. Materials now located in Cambridge are clearly marked "Arnold Arboretum," and are maintained from funds provided for that purpose...
Members of the Committee have been uniformly enthusiastic. One reason cited is that Wald, who was one of the authors of General Education in a Free Society, is one of the most respected men connected with Gen Ed, and has long been sought as a teacher for a lower level course...
Although endorsed as a course for concentration, one member of the Committee called Wald's proposal, "one of the few real General Education courses in the Natural Sciences...