Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nested on a ridge part way up South Mountain, and, architecturally, looks very much like a typical British dominion parliament building. Inside, long corridor lounges and spacious well-appointed dining rooms give Packer's basically functional layout a whiff of atmosphere not unlike that of a Parisian hotel built in the grand old manner...
...might suspect, Mace is a tall, trim, and solidly built man, who wears black horn-rimmed glasses for reading, smokes mentholated cigarettes, and works at his desk in shirtsleeves that are clean enough to smell white. His disposition is unbearable until he has had his first cup of coffee in the morning, but Mace explains this as "an old Norwegian habit...
...flats fulfill a longstanding need of university theatrical groups. Previously stage flats have been either rented or borrowed by the Opera Guild or built by the students, as in the case of the HDC. James E. Stinson, Jr. '59, president of the HDC, said that the flats are "very valuable because they are the basic unit for many sets." However, he considered that their value was "more a matter of convenience than of actual money," since the cost of flats is only a small part of a production's budget...
...best way to demonstrate the principle of self-determination on Taiwan is to continue with the election process which the Nationalist government is now operating at the local level. Whenever this process can be built up and begin to operate for Taiwan as a whole, under the auspices of the present government, it will go far to show that the people there have a form of democratic self-determination. John K. Fairbank '29, Professor of History...
Died. Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald, 66, stocky, devious, high-priced influence peddler during the Truman Administration; of a heart ailment; in Washington. Wire Puller Grunewald built up a well-placed circle of Washington friends in both parties, came to grief when House investigators first learned, in 1951, that he had bartered his influence to help settle income tax cases (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951 et seq.). The ailing (a series of heart attacks since 1953) Dutchman served only one sentence (90 days for violating probation), twice escaped jail on tax-fixing charges...