Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Even the top-priority luncheon thrown for him by his great and good friend (and fellow Lenin prizewinner) Cyrus Eaton, the Cleveland industrialist, was not all K. had hoped for. Present were about 125 U.S. and Canadian businessmen (mostly associates of Eaton's) and a flock of Tass reporters. Though Khrush got a chance to sing his Communist theme, most of the guests deliberately passed up his offer to answer questions from the floor; one disgruntled guest was heard to mutter during K.'s speech: "Oh, sit down, you s.o.b...
Dean Monro's recent proposal that universities join in setting up a project for recruiting gifted students with little educational opportunity makes a good deal of sense. As he says, the present admissions system is wasteful and insensitive, and, although no miracle will be wrought by Monro's plan, it shows an understanding of the fact that a truly democratic scholarship program will have to help motivate students as well as hand them checks after they've been accepted...
Girls interested in regular "Radcliffe parietal hours" should submit their suggestions to the Student Government Association for discussion, Dean Brown noted, adding that at present few students appear to desire such a change in the rules...
...East-West leaders refrain from dragging the Cold War into the United Nations the organization will survive the present crisis. If, however, they insist on waging their battle for world supremacy through the U.N., the world organization will be crippled and the myriad problems that lie outside of the East-West conflict will remain largely unsolved...
With the influx of newly independent nations, U.S. ability to arouse support has declined, while Soviet strength has increased. Neither side controls two-thirds of the members at present. Only on a few issues, Morgenthau commented, has the Assembly proven itself capable of more than passing resolutions calling for investigations or reports by the Secretary General...