Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also found that many a passenger grumbled about the offhand, grudging service Northwest gave its passengers. Nyrop played to the passengers' fancy with a host of new gimmicks that stress Northwest's "Orient" flavor. He put on Nisei and Chinese-American girls as stewardesses on domestic hops, decked first-class planes with flowers and gave passengers wintergreen-scented hot and cold towels (an old Oriental custom for soothing tired businessmen). Taken together, the changes did much to soothe Northwest Airlines...
...last grandes dames of England. One of her grandsons is a director of the Bank of England, another will soon be a bishop, and a third is a Cabinet minister-although she can remember when a politician at her dinner table would have been as unthinkable as an American. She is 80 on the day the book opens, but she is still so beautiful and witty that England's beknighted poet laureate, Sir Percy Rodiner, trots beside her, constantly begging her to marry him. Like everyone else, Sir Percy thinks she is a noblewoman of French birth...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1)* 2. Lolita, Nabokov (2) 3. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 5. Around the World with Auntie Maine, Dennis (3) 6. Exodus, Uris (7) 7. Victorine, Keyes (8) 8. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (6) 9. The Best of Everything, Jaffe (10) 10. The Rainbow and the Rose, Shute...
Harvard scientists made major contributions to the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science during its meeting in Washington, D.C. Papers ranging from the production of artificial jade crystals to the role of an "educational revolution" in shaping the future of the Western world were delivered by Harvard professors...
Harvard and West Point led all colleges in students selected, with five each. The Cadet's winners include Pete Dawkins, All-American quarterback...