Word: stevensonism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University-owned club will be called Adlai Stevenson Hall, and already 80 sophomores have decided to join. Juniors, who have been quitting their own clubs in large numbers since January, and old Key and Seal men will put the number well over 150. Members will include the presidents of the sophomore and junior classes and basketball center Chris Thomforde. The new set-up will involve faculty as well. There will be a resident master and several associates, and plans for club-based courses and a lecture series with guest lecturers staying at the building...
Sophomore president W. Joseph Dehner said last week that the two buildings of Stevenson Hall may be connected by a tunnel, with old Court Club used for dining and Key and Seal for a library and study...
...founding of Stevenson Hall represents a leap forward in the progress of the Princeton social system. In five years the University may be running nearly all the clubs and they will probably look very much like Stevenson. As more and more sophomores decide that private clubs are not for them, the clubs will feel a financial squeeze. They need members to survive. Even now, Goheen is secretly negotiating with three more clubs. They might be bought out before February...
...liking (one brief suitor was General Dynamics). Finally, with a Manhattan brokerage house acting as catalyst, talks were set up in Denver with Signal President Forrest N. Shumway. The critical decision to negotiate toward merger came in October in a phone call between Allis-Chalmers Chairman Robert S. Stevenson and Shumway, who was attending a Notre Dame football game in South Bend, Ind. Signal's purchase price figures to be worth about $45 per share of Allis-Chalmers' common (last week's closing: $38.75), considerably less than the $55-$60 estimate that Ling put on his final...
...Stevenson had some compelling reasons for preferring to team up with Signal. For one thing, unlike Ling's combination offer of stock and cash, the deal with Signal is expected to be taxfree, since it involves a straight exchange of stock. Just as important to Stevenson's 121-year-old company is Signal's promise that it will operate as an independent subsidiary-and so retain its corporate identity...