Word: berthe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tigers, therefore, are the team to pass, if the varsity is to gain the coveted first division berth. Princeton must still play first place Dartmouth, as well as Columbia and Penn. The possibility that Harvard might achieve fourth place was not even imagined at the beginning of the year, and thus, even if it fails in its bid, the season can be considered a success...
...third reason, undefined but still apparent, is a feeling in the regular services that National Guardsmen get a soft berth. For instance, Guardsmen receive a full day's pay for each four-hour drill. They also receive many benefits of regular enlistment. Many who joined the Guard before the Korean G.I. Bill expired receive full educational and other benefits from the Bill, and the Army Guard serves its only intensive active duty in an annual two-week encampment...
...Coordinator. Soaring high into the clean, quiet void - where at times the visibility stretched for more than 200 miles - the planes streaked counterclockwise around the earth - eastward across the U.S., over Newfoundland, past North Africa, Saudi Arabia and Ceylon (giving the Soviet Union a wide berth), made a mock bomb-run off the Malay Peninsula, cut back over Manila, then Guam, headed across the wide reaches of the Pacific to California (see map). Below, in daylight hours, the world spun like a giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that...
Gone from the Nazis. In World War II Jock Whitney was a public-relations and liaison officer (colonel) in the Air Corps, an agreeable berth that was disrupted one day during the invasion of Southern France when he headed his jeep beyond the American positions and got captured. When the Nazis packed him off north in a boxcar along lines that the Allies were bombing, coolheaded Jock Whitney regaled his fellow P.W.s with a running commentary-"Now they're peeling off to come in! God, it's lovely! Now the first one is leveling off!" During...
...succeeds in evolving into something more, the shape it takes will owe much to Dag Hammarskjold. As Secretary-General of the United Nations, Hammarskjold holds a job whose very title carries overtones of impotence. Today, however, what was originally conceived of as the world's top civil-service berth ($20,000 a year tax free and $35,000 for expenses) shows promise of developing into an executive post of potentially immense power. Partly, this is a matter of impersonal historic forces-among them the tendency of a frightened legislature to yearn for a strong executive; partly, it reflects...