Word: among
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that your correspondent did not mention the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the hotel. But, then, perhaps the press invasion had displaced the habitues. Among those who stayed at but not in the Constellation were Georges, the French opium addict, and Monsieur the counterfeiter...
...Space Administration, headed by T. Keith Glennan, engineer, ex-Hollywood studio manager and president-on-leave of Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology. Neither ARPA nor NASA has enough authority or resources to set long-range goals and march toward them. Splinters of space programs are further scattered among the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the Defense Department's Office of Research and Engineering. Result: a maze of divided responsibilities in which appalling amounts of time and effort go into switching programs around on organizational charts instead of into making technological headway...
...Among the other results of the U.S. visit of Khrushchev & Co.: SUMMIT CONFERENCE: "The conversations have, so far as I am personally concerned, removed many of the objections that I have heretofore held," said President Eisenhower in reply to a press conference question about a summit meeting. The President's point: with the Berlin deadline withdrawn, he was ready to go to the summit if and when U.S. allies agree...
...1940s, and since 1944 has regularly held Cabinet posts in the government. As Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in 1950, he drafted the land-reform bills that helped turn back Italy's rising Communist tide, ultimately freed nearly 2,000,000 acres of privately owned land for distribution among 150,000 peasants. Two hundred and fifty of those acres came from Segni's own estate...
...feeling among coaches and players is that the contest will be won or lost in the line. The Crimson has a slight edge in the backfield, but the linemen must outplay the Big Red forwards if the varsity is to triumph...