Big Ford Gift Speeds MIT Progress at Cambridge
MIT to use a 9.275 million Ford Foundation grant to accelerate engineering and technology. Funds endow seven professorships, support synthesis courses, build new laboratories, and train promising scholars for professorships, aiming to advance technological revolutions in coming decades.
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Cambridge
Mass
Ford Foundation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Julius A. Stratton
Fingold Pension Tabled by Board
Boston AP The state retirement appeal board did not act at a meeting yesterday on the appeal of Mrs Ethelyn Fingold for a 10000 dollar a year state pension. She sought two thirds of her husband attorney Ger George Fingald who died Aug 31 1958 of a heart ailment she said was due to his duties. Medical testimony indicated the ailment dated from childhood.
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State Retirement Appeal Board
Ethelyn Fingold
Fingold
George Fingald
Treasury Bonds Co for Mortgages
The government announced that the Federal National Mortgage Assn will accept 50 million dollars of 2 percent treasury bonds in exchange for four percent government backed mortgages held by the agency. Bond holders may submit competitive bids, while the Senate opposed the plan citing potential loss of agency income and possible tightening of mortgage credit. Dr Nathan H Woodruff, linked to the Manhattan Atomic Project, was named director of the Atomic Energy Commission new office of health and safety.
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Senate
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Atomic Energy Commission
Office of Health and Safety
Marshall Rites Bring Together Ike Truman
Gen George C Marshall was buried in Arlington with a simple ceremony. Ike Eisenhower and Harry S Truman sat in the same chapel pew, united by debts to Marshall though not exchanging words. Truman called Marshall the greatest man of our times and greatest general since Robert E Lee.
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George C. Marshal
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Fr. Myer. Va
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White House
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Robert E. Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Europe
Vermont Mayors Fight AF Rocket Show Waste
Mayors James Fitzpatrick of Burlington and Dan Healy of Rutland condemned the Air Force rocketry meeting at Tyndall AFB Florida as a taxpayer waste. They stated they traveled to Florida to see defense demonstrations but found only sales pitches from aviation and electronics firms, calling the event a fraud and outrage. The trip, arranged as a week long missile flight demonstration, drew sharp criticism from Vermont's municipal leaders.
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Tyndall Air Force Base
Florida
James ©. Fitzpatrick
Dan J. Healy
Rutland
Burlington Free Press
Healy
United States
Dandealy
WEEE
Filzpatrick
AEC Authorizes Test For Simplified Reactor
Baltimore reports the Atomic Energy Commission authorized Martin Co to build a pilot fluidized bed reactor test to prove practicality. The design uses pea sized fuel pellets in a water filled cylinder with water flow as the control to start and stop the chain reaction, aiming to lower nuclear power costs.
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Martin Co
Aromatic Energy Commission
Martin
AEC
Segregated seating at harmony dinner in Arkansas
Regional party representative Herald Jisks said on Tuesday that Negroes are welcome at the October 30 dinner in Little Rock but will be seated at segregated tables in line with South policies. The event is organized by the Arkansas Democratic party.
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Herald Jisks
Little Rock
Ars
South
Beverly Mayor Wick Jr. Nominated for Second Term in Primary
Beverly Massachusetts AP reports Mayor Thomas K. Wick Jr. was renominated for a second term after securing two thirds of the vote. In the primary turnout 4,725 voted with Wick garnering 3,089. James A. Murphy, a lawyer, placed second and will oppose Wick in the next month’s general election.
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Thomas K. Wick Jr
Wickers
James A. Murphy
UMass President Salary Bill Seeks 20000 Pay and Housing
Boston lawmakers file a bill to raise the University of Massachusetts president’s pay from 325,000 to 20,000 a year plus expenses and a home. The bill preserves a rent deduction of 1,200 annually. Jean Paul Mather resigns at year’s end over vetoes on pay. Trustees study future needs as a search for a successor begins.
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University of Massachusetts
Sumner Z. Kaplan
Brookline
Alexander J. Cella
Medford
University
Mead
Exget
Univy
Jean Paul Mather
Mather
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