Word: career
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into Geneva at week's end to speak for the U.S. at the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting on Germany. Ahead of him, in the negotiations at Geneva's history-haunted Palais des Nations, Chris Herter faced the sternest test of skill and nerve of his career...
Brecht devoted much of his career to his ever-recurring contention that whatever decent impulses men have are frustrated by a social system based on inequality of income, and Puntila is a variation on this theme. But it is more cheerful than many of his works, since the emphasis is not so much on the system and the monstrous creatures which it makes of men, as on the abounding exuberance and health of the impulses it cannot entirely suppress. As Puntila gropes drunkenly toward the friendship of his hired man, and as the hired man gropes cockily toward the privy...
Closing a varied career, Col. Armstrong will add to his teaching experience when he goes to the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., starting next fall. There he will head the junior ROTC program and teach American history. He has also taught Social Sciences at West Point and war planning at the Army War College...
This one race changed the complexion of the meet, and the Crimson never seriously threatened, although it performed brilliantly. Captain Albie Gordon ran one of the best races of his career, a 48.1 440, but he lost by a step to Yale's Jim Stack, who set a meet mark with his 48.0 clocking. Crimson sophomore Frank Yeomans' 9.8 performance in the 100 was good only for a second to Bulldog Steve Snyder...
Varsity ace Joel Landau had one of the unhappiest days of his brilliant career, winning only one race, the high hurdles, in 14.9. Troubled by foot ailments, he was shut out in the 220 behind a Yale sweep led by Dave Bain with a meet mark...