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...position has not changed. But Secretary-General U Thant was working hard to avoid a showdown, proposed delaying the issue. Most delegates still managed to persuade themselves that the clash would somehow be avoided. "There has to be a settlement," said Liberia's pro-U.S. Ambassador Nathan Barnes. "I just can't believe either the U.S. or Russia wants to destroy...
...Nathan S. Kline of New York's Rockland State Hospital was a pioneer in proving that whatever their cause, some mental illnesses can be eased by the drugs now familiarly known as tranquilizers. By 1957 Dr. Kline had won a Lasker award for his work. And in that same year, Dr. Kline convinced him self that since drugs could ease a patient out of agitated or "manic" states, there ought to be other drugs that could ease other patients out of depressions...
Ambition brought him to New York, where the late George Jean Nathan, then theater critic for the Journal-American, helped him get a job on the paper in 1949. At the time, O'Brian had been the Associated Press's drama critic and sometime radio critic for six years. After a brief stint as a Journal-American rewrite man, O'Brian was assigned to do a radio-TV column. This was in the days when everybody who had a TV set was watching four to five hours a night and wanted to talk about it the next...
...members of the Harvard delegation, Steven Young '66 and Nathan M. Riley '66, were responsible for a resolution to back state and federal studies of the problems of economic conversion of industries from military to civilian production. This included the possibility of turning the Watertown Arsenal into an Industrial Conversion Technology Center...
Harvard President Nathan Pusey's undergraduate days in Cambridge were enriched by a restricted scholarship. As a transplanted native of Council Bluffs, Iowa, he was eligible for aid offered by Charles Perkins, president of the Chicago, Burlington &; Quincy Railroad, whose trust fund gave preference to youths "who come from the territory in Iowa served by the C.B. & Q. Railroad." Princeton engineering students from states served by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. can apply for a special scholarship. At N.Y.U., would-be teachers tap funds given by Mrs. Finley J. Shepard-daughter of Railroad Magnate Jay Gould...