Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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Tenzing and Hillary reached the summit of majestic Mt. Everest in time to present the conquest as a Coronation gift to Britain,s lovely new queen, Elizabeth II. ,fs

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While Norman Vincent Peale and his book, Power of Posifizfe Tlzilzkifzg, infused a new praying-can-be-profitable note into religion, the zealous evangelist, Billy Graham, ignited a hellfire under audiences all over the country and in his mission to London even shook the dignity-bound Arch- bishop of Canterbury a bit. The obituary list of these years made more than small- town spinsters raise their eyebrows. The old Guard Repub- licans were decapitated and left heartless by the death of Bob Taft. The loss of King George VI reminded Britain of her own shivery hold on the world. Eugene O'Neill, America's great- est playwright, went Beyond fbc' Horizon but his were Days Wifbozlat Eml. The condemmed spies, the Rosenbergs, were executed amidst a storm of criticism and debate but, it seems, were quickly forgotten. The Braves died, at least in Boston, but were resurrected by the fervid fans of Milwaukee, thus introducing a gradual shake-up in the major leagues. And behind the Iron Curtain pudgy Georgy Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin who had controlled Russiais 200 millions since the 1920's and with amazing selling techniques had created more millions of captive customers of Communism. But the Red Empire trembled uneasily with the change of rulers and the new dictator,s grasp on the hammer and sickle was none too secure. Death of a Salesman

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l The dawning of the thermonuclear age, with its H-bomb whose lethal radioactive fallout could cover a cigar- shaped area of 7,000 square miles, put a premium on the ability of diplomats to keep the temperature low in the cold War. The Far East had become a lot nearer to Americans. Many a GI brought home an adoring Asian wife. U. S. artists like sculptor Isamu Noguchi spanned the Pacific for their inspira- tion and achieved that pleasing Oriental quality of oneness and ease in their work. The Asia-conscious government sent Vice- President Nixon on a first-hand tour of the Far East. The Kor- ean Armistice, concluded in the summer of 1953, eliminated one of the big hot spots in the cold War. The American reaction to the Panmunjom peace was probably best expressed by the photograph below of three tired and relieved marines when they heard the news. Time for a cigarette.