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One suggestion made by educators recently is that large universities "adopt" Southern Negro colleges and attempt to raise their educational standards through an exchange of faculty and students. Though Harvard has traditionally shied away from formal exchange programs, it might well consider other voluntary steps. The HCUA or some appropriate...
SAC Commander Thomas Sarsfield Power, the four-star Air Force general who last week took a foursquare stand against the nuclear test ban treaty, has never shied away from a scrap with his superiors. In 1959 he completed a book advocating, under certain conditions, a preemptive first strike against Russia...
Cooper was the sixth astronaut to enter space-and some officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had been reluctant to give him his chance. They tabbed Cooper as something of a complainer, as unpredictable, and as indifferent to building the "public image" demanded of astronauts. Hardly had he...
Gifts of art to museums and schools are usually legitimate charitable deductions, but the practice is open to abuse. A collector more interested in his taxes than in public beneficence can get some "expert" to put a high evaluation (citing the rising art market) on a cheaply obtained painting, then...
But whatever the activity delegated to the area, there were dangers inherent in its design. At cocktail parties, late-staying guests tended to fall in. Those in the pit found themselves bombarded with bits of hors d'oeuvrcs from up above, looked out on a field of trouser cuffs...