Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When President Eisenhower set up his special National Advisory Committee on Inter-American Affairs last November, Latin America greeted the news with tongue in cheek. Though the distinguished six-man group* was formed to be Ike's personal consultant on hemisphere problems, some Latins wondered out loud if it would ever be heard from. Last week, as the President headed home from his ten-day tour of the continent, no one doubted that the committee meant business...
...each stop the Americans split into two-and three-man teams of eyes and ears for Ike to confer with Latin American leaders around conference tables, at luncheon and dinner. In Argentina, one group of committeemen closeted themselves for 1½ hours with Economy Minister Alvaro Alsogaray while another met with eleven top educators, heard earnest argument for more fellowships for study in the U.S. In Chile, the team of Holland and Milton Eisenhower listened to Chilean university heads explain their dilemma as a conflict between a developing nation's obligation to concentrate on technical learning without neglecting liberal...
...Before a group of Havana University students-and a countrywide TV audience-Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, the scraggly-bearded president of Cuba's National Bank and the top Red in the Castro government, explained that Cuba's 3,000,000-ton sugar quota on the high-priced U.S. market (5? per lb. v. 3? on the world market) was not a good deal at all. Instead, said Che, it was a "deceitful" Yankee device designed to "enslave" Cuba by keeping it a one-crop agricultural country. "The purpose is to preclude the industrial development of this country...
Behind the new teaching methods is a group sponsored by the National Science Foundation and spark-plugged by Professor Jerrold Zacharias of M.I.T. Says Zacharias: "Relativity and quantum mechanics are essential to understanding our universe. Quantum mechanics is not really modern physics. It is 34 years old, which is twice as old as a 17-year-old freshman. There was a revolution in 1926* and it's high time that we taught...
Ever since Freudian patter became the common currency of the cocktail hour, the idea has been spreading that people who have accidents are "accident-prone." But for a massive group of accident victims-the 8,000 U.S. pedestrians killed each year by motor vehicles-there is no clear medical evidence one way or the other. Last week an American College of Surgeons meeting in Boston learned the results of an intensive and ingenious study that enlisted experts from the New York State Department of Health and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Cornell University Medical College, the office of New York...