Duke University Growth and Expanded Role Cited
Duke University shows rapid expansion with assets rising from 106 million to 214.9 million and physical plant value increasing from 57 million to 126.1 million over a decade. Revenues and expenditures more than tripled, research funds grew from 4.9 million to 25.5 million, and gifts and grants from private sources surged from 7.8 million to 36 million. President Omg M. Knight highlighted donor growth as a key factor in these gains.
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Durham
Duke University
Duke
Omg M. Knight
University
Duke Loyalty Fund
Knight
Stanford
Yale
Atomic Shooting Gallery Moves Into Duke Lab Building
A 57 ton steel tank destined for Duke University’s new Nuclear Structure Lab was delivered to campus after a crane-assisted three day process. The tank will house the FN Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator and support a cyclotron injector powering high energy physics experiments.
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Duke University
Duke
Repre
Ratory
Hospital
Clark Johnson
High Voltage Engineering Corp
Burlington, Mass
Johnson
Erwin Road
Campus
Children of War in Saigon Live on Street Corners
AAP report describes hundreds of Saigon street children harshly surviving the war aftershocks. Orphans and runaways hustle as shoeshine boys, beggars, car washers, and street performers to feed themselves, with older youths teaching phrases to coax alms from soldiers and civilians near U S Post Exchange.
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Saigon
USS. Post Exchange
Roseland Lives On As Time Machines In New York
AP Special Correspondent Hugh A Mulligan captures Roseland ballroom in Manhattan a nostalgic time capsule where matinee dances revive three decades of glamour. The scene contrasts with nearby clubs and theaters as detectives, hippies, patrons, and performers inhabit a city of past and present on Broadway.
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Hugh A. Mulligan
NEW York
Manhattan
Roseland Ballroom
Museum of Natural
Frank Sinatra
ANTA
Roseland
Dance City
Benny Goodman
Clyde McCoy
Rudy Vallee
Dorsey Brothers
Paul Whiteman
Charlotte Ford
UNC researchers tackle snail fever in global fight
University of North Carolina scientists at the School of Pharmacy lead drug research against schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease spread by snails affecting millions in the tropics. They test antimony compounds to kill immature worms before they mature, seeking safer, effective prevention with funding from the pharmacy school and federal aid sought.
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Near East
Africa
South America
Caribbean Islands
Albert M. Mattocks
Claude Piantadosi
Emad El-Bassiouni
UNC School of Pharmacy
North America
New York City
Peace Corps
Pharmacy School
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Medical Center
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Switzerland
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