Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bogdown of the U.S.-U.K.-U.S.S.R. disarmament talks at Geneva, the U.S.'s smoldering debate about stopping nuclear tests-more or less tamped down by the President's decision last August to stop tests for one year-fanned into new flame. The Atomic Energy Commission and the Pentagon, convinced that prolonged test suspension would play fast and loose with U.S. military posture, argued for resuming low-fallout tests. And last week the advocates of full test suspension, centered in President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee under M.I.T.'s James Rhyne Killian, loosed a bitter counterattack...
...left the church at 18 and has not joined another (whispers a Kennedy backer: "Meyner's not too popular among Catholics, you know"). He is hardly known outside New Jersey, and his rare ventures away from home have been singularly unfortunate. In a nine-state speaking tour last August, he chose a shirtsleeved Minnesota farm audience, ready to plow under Ezra Benson, to lecture on the subject of "The Current Congressional Inquiry into the Operation of the Federal Regulatory Agencies...
...averages, and Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks weeks ago exceeded their alltime highs; last week, at long last, they were followed by a slowpoke: the New York Times combined average of 25 industrial and 25 railroad stocks, which broke through its alltime high set in August 1956. Crowed the Times: "A historic milestone...
There are 11 Final Clubs, so called because once an undergraduate joins one he cannot join any other. The Porcellian and the A.D, the oldest and socially most prominent, perch unobtrusively above shops (J. August and Briggs & Briggs) along Mass. Avenue. In the rather vague hierarchy of social desirability, the next group includes (alphabetically arranged) the Delphic, better known as "the Gas" (on Linden St. opposite the University Squash Courts), the Fly (on Holyoke Place in front of Lowell House), the Owl (Holyoke St. diagonally across from the I.A.B.), and the Spee (corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Sts.). Then...
...Fundamentals. He started slowly, worked on fundamentals all spring, did not even introduce his offense (split-T with variations that include a double wing belly series) until pre-season practice started in August. Says he: "I had to create a happy atmosphere. The game should be fun-relaxed, happy, undrudge-like. We don't berate the boys for failures. There are no horsewhips around here...