Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WILLIAM C. DA VIE Rosedale...
More than Retort. Painstaking work, with six rewritings between first draft and final text, went into the President's speech. Resolved that any speech he delivered to the General Assembly would be more than a mere retort to Soviet accusations. Ike called in C. D. Jackson, a vice president of TIME, Inc. and wartime civilian member of General Eisenhower's SHAEF staff, who had helped write the Atoms for Peace speech...
...dramatic reversal of long-frozen policy, the U.S. last week agreed to help set up an international bank for Latin American economic development. At a special session of the Organization of American States, World Financier C. Douglas Dillon, now Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, announced: "The U.S. is prepared to consider the establishment of an inter-American regional-development institution." Latin America's joyous response was summed up by El Salvador Delegate Julio Heurtematte: "It is the realization of an old dream...
...days later Wynne & Reeves was just another business failure. Two students tipped off Dean of Administration William C. Jones, got $30 in expense money from him, bought a bootleg exam. The dean called the district attorney, and investigators raided the apartment, seizing Wynne and the crib sheets. They caught Reeves as he headed confidently for his last exam, armed with some of his own merchandise. The college bounced the student peddlers and fired the watchman, but by the time the bootlegging was discovered, it was too late to substitute exams. Satisfied Wynne & Reeves customers-prospective teachers all-got off scot...
...Gauguin's Still Life with Apples, bought at auction last year by Greek Shipping Magnate Basil Peter Goulandris for the highest known price ($297,000) ever paid for a modern oil (TIME, June 24, 1957). ¶ Most of the little-seen Stephen C. Clark collection, including Van Gogh's Cafe de Nuit, El Greco's Saint Andrew, Rembrandt's Praying Pilgrim, Cezanne's Card Players...