Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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-,vw I ff z 5 27123: '11-2 1 4 Alf' ?4 i F r l Top '57 Events French paratroopers haul light artillery into position for their advance on Port Said as fire rages in the distance during the joint Anglo-French attack on the Suez Canal. ,4f'V . N up . .l,,, M fr s , at -4 N ' -. , AP' , fvvwv we MQW J' -We V 3L 'W 53,21 , W. ...W ,-was mm uwnaw Istvan Laszlo, 21 year old leader in t e Hungarian revolt, spoke through an interpreter. He told Northwestern students about Russian tanks in the rubble-strewn streets of Budapest.

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ffl ai, fifth, Disaster was the key to international events this year. Major transportation mishaps on sea and in the air, lighting in the Middle-East and communist- opposed revolutions were among the major events that brought about this situation. Many of these affected Northwestern students. On July 26 the Swedish liner Stock- holm and the Italian ship Andria-Doria collided in the fog off Nantucket, kill- ing fifty people. Among the 1,118 Doria passengers rescued was Dr. Eva Odehnal, en route from Austria. Her destination, North- western University, where she planned to do graduate work in economics. X. xg Another travel disaster on June 30 saw a TVVA and United airplane col- lide over Grand Canyon killing 128 people in history's worst airline disaster. On the same July day that saw the Doria's doom, Egyptian President Ab- dul Gamel Nasser announced his in- tention of nationalizing the Suez Canal. After conferences failed to change Nasser's mind, England and France took violent action despite United States opposition. On October 31 An- glo-French planes bombed Egyptian airhelds in what they termed an at- tempt to keep the canal open to all. England made headlines again in February when Sir Anthony Eden was Hungary, Suez, Israel A year like all years, 7957 saw disaster in many areas-revolt and war filled headlines replaced as Prime Minister by Harold MacMillan. Israeli-Arab lighting brought more trouble to the Middle-East. The international events that had perhaps the most profound effect on Northwestern were student-led upris- ings in Poland and Hungary. While fighting continued in Hun- gary, an escaped Freedom Fighter spoke at Tech and asked for help. Northwestern students answered his plea for aid by forming a Committee for a Free Hungary. Clothes and money were collected and were supplemented by 152,800 from the Student Service Fund. MXWW Miss Eva Odehnal takes time out from her graduate studies for a cup of Grill coffee. A passenger on the Andria Doria, she lost all her luggage and her half finished Ph.D. dissertation when the liner went down.

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I' GPIB,- The world of politics made itself felt nationally and locally-1956 was an election year. Political conventions, mock political conventions, campus elections-all made headlines. Later in the year, investigations ran rampant. In Chicago's Amphitheater, the Democrats nominated Adlai Stevenson for president and when he threw the vice-presidential slot up for grabs, Estes Kefauver got the nod for the second spot on the democratic ticket. To the surprise of absolutely no one, the Republicans in San Francisco's Cow Palace chose Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon as their candidates. N. A September elections culminated in an ovsrwhelming victory for the 'clke and Dickv team. Northwestern echoed the national political fervor in April with a three day Mock Political convention in Mc- Gaw hall. They echoed it again when they chose Ike for president but then chose Harold Stassen for vice-president. Campus politics saw the only politi- cal race where candidates from op- posing parties were elected to top spots. FNV George Cohen was chosen SGB prexy while SC Lois Herman got the student's vote for veep. Investigations began on campus and fff. . .. Uw- Ex-President Harry Truman joins in cheersj and congratulations for newly nominated demo- cratic candidates Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver at the party convention in Chicago. 10 Politics: Ike, Nixon for Stevenson and Kefauver were unable to prevent a GOP lanclslideg at NU, voters were busy too the money question came into play when SGB looked into the workings of the Student Directory and decided to hand the publishing task to the senior council. The Human- Relations committee did some investigating of its own and checked off-campus entertainment spots whose admission policy seemed to discriminate on the basis of color and creed. Nationally, money was the problem again as the McClellan committee investigated labor racketeering and brought teamster president Dave Beck and his elusive financial records into the spotlight. Outgoing SGB prexy Max Nathan hands the gavel to fellow FNVer George Cohen.