Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting opened. Huffed a German delegate to Cushing: "Don't think you are going to parlay one ski lift into an Olympic Game." Even a U.S. delegate sneered: "Who's going to vote for you? I'm not." Austria's Innsbruck was Squaw's chief competitor, and seemed a sure winner when one of the delegates charged that Squaw was totally unprepared to stage an Olympics, furthermore should be disqualified because it was not a town (it still is not). Summoned to the meeting room for an explanation, Cushing turned on the charm. There should...
...skill. To handle the novel's bewildering rush toward chaos, Camus uses an onstage narrator who streamlines the transition between scenes (some take only eight seconds). The play roils with the deluded intrigues of nihilists, whom Camus makes strongly reminiscent of modern Marxists. Perhaps the play's chief quality is Camus' adroit emphasis of Nikolay Stavrogin (ably played by Pierre Vaneck), the book's most memorably monstrous character. An empty-souled aristocrat, Stavrogin longs to be a sort of Nietzschean superman. He instigates a band of young revolutionaries to murder, rapes his landlady's little...
...survey of corporate appropriations by the National Industrial Conference Board points to "a sustained rise" in outlays. The board's Chief Economist Martin R. Gainsbrugh told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee that the upswing will be "well timed" for the long-term recovery, show its greatest momentum in the second half...
Chairman James S. Duncan resigned because of "ill health," and Colonel W. Eric Phillips, backed by 30% of the voting stock, became chairman and chief executive officer. Phillips, who had brought Thornbrough to Toronto from the Ferguson tractor division a year before, promoted him to president with authority to overhaul the company...
Died. Harvey Ellsworth Newbranch, 83, apple-cheeked, cane-bearing, retired (since 1949) editor in chief of the Omaha World-Herald, who joined the paper as a cub in 1898, rose to become one of the nation's topflight editorial writers, won a 1920 Pulitzer Prize for his florid, horror-struck brief against race rioters, "Law and the Jungle"; of a heart attack; in Omaha...