Edens Administration Period Of Growth For Duke University
Duke University under President A Hollis Edens saw rapid expansion from 1949 to 1959 with a $12 million development plan, increased alumni giving, rising assets and research funds, and curriculum revisions. The era emphasized excellence, selective admissions, higher faculty salaries, and expanded programs while preserving academic freedom and university loyalty.
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Hollis Edens
Duke University
Edens
Norman A. Cocke
Charlotte
George G. Allen
New York City
Duke Endowment
Durham
A. Hollis Edens
Duke
The
University
Rockefeller
Carnegie Foundations
Ford Foundation
Commonwealth Studies Center
Center For the Study of
Agine
World Rule of Law Center
Chinese Communist rocket bases reported along mainland coast
Taipei AP report says Nationalist China's defense ministry announced rocket bases line the coast. Spokesman Rear Adm Liu Hoh tu gave few details and noted about 3 000 air force planes mostly jets. He estimated 20 to 30 submarines and denied long range subs.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
Defense Ministry
Liu Hoh-tu
Liu
Red China
Peiping
Intricate Compass Island Aids Navy Inertial Navigation Research
The USS Compass Island a 564 foot converted Mariner class ship serves as a floating laboratory testing inertial guidance for subs enabling global stealth travel. Engineers monitor two computer systems one digital and one analog while gyroscopes and stabilizers keep instruments precise. The crew includes 15 officers 205 sailors and 25 civilian engineers with 25 million dollars of equipment aboard often at sea two weeks then docked at Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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Navy
Compass Island
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Buffalo Ranch Brings Western Flavor to North Carolina Piedmont
The only buffalo ranch east of the Mississippi sits on over 100 acres near Concord, North Carolina. Started in 1947 by A B Cook of Cook's Packing Plant, it houses about 30 buffaloes, 15 deer, six Texas Longhorn cattle, and five Scot Highland cattle. The ranch opens for Sunday tours and features an 18 acre lake, a log cabin, recon structures, horses, and mounted animal trophies in a decorative western room.
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Concord
N.C
Mississippi River
Highway 49
A. B. Cook
Cook
South Carolina
Ohio
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Jim
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John Paul
Pacific
New York
J. H. Cotten
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Piedmont
Montana
High Point
Aluminum Products CO
Pine Knoll Shores
Roosevelt Property
Morehead City
Atlantic Ocean
Bogue Sound
Carolinas
Atlantic Beach
Salter Path
Dept
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