Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blues: he was too busy. Though he ducked a press conference, he presided over meetings of Republican congressional leaders, the National Security Council and the Cabinet, as well as over the swearing-in of Secretary of State Herter and Special Consultant John Foster Dulles. He also opened a new chapter in his drive for a balanced budget by briefly taking advantage of the public-opinion spotlight focused on the I.C.C. meeting and on a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers...
...Harvard Chapter of the National Honor Society in Economics elected a board of new officers...
...will become Director of Admissions. She has been director of Women's Archives, and of the Radcliffe Seminars, since she graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe in 1950. In 1954 she received her master's degree from the College. She is also chairman of a subcommittee of the Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
Richard Robinson publishes Chapter Five of his novel, a segment of which was widely appreciated by Advocate readers several months ago. This excerpt, titled "Afternoon in Formia," concerns a ruse devised by two rakes giro and Lorenzo, to acquire bank funds that do not belong to them, and also, a devilish trick that Giro plays on Lorenzo, in which the latter, in an effort to demonstrate that a person consumed by pity blinds himself to reality, receives, for his services, not the roses that he anticipates, but rather, an unfortunate pelting of old artichokes and rotting lettuce heads...
Author Duerrenmatt turns his plot so neatly that he cannot help licking his chops over it. His final ironic twist is both fiendish and plausible, but he leads up to it in a sententious, preachy chapter. And the carefully spelled-out fact that selflessness and faith were the road to Matthäi's breakdown creates an atmosphere of intense depression. But none of these shortcomings can really harm an unconventional and psychologically ingenious mystery story...