Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bring the satellite back to earth at a desired place and time, designers expect to employ a retrorocket, which will be fired to reduce its speed at the chosen moment and spot. A parachute will slow it further, and a radio will shout an S O S. Finding the satellite with its undeveloped films or its beat-up "primate" should not be much harder than finding a missile's nose cone...
...great literary honors-the Nobel Prize. The elaborate ceremonies, honoring, among others, three Soviet scientists, were bound to be dominated by the man who was not there. According to a terse speech, prepared weeks ago, by Anders Osterling, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Boris Pasternak was chosen because of his "important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition. Mr. Pasternak informed us that he does not wish to accept the prize. In view of these circumstances the Academy can only express its regrets...
Also on the positive side, said Johanson, is the fact that Argentina is beginning drastic action to end its economic crisis. "Too many people expected an easy miracle," he commented. In addition, the Venezuelan military group has said that it will accept any candidate who may be chosen in the national elections...
...what they are expected to become." Their guiding light: "That our daughters may be as cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace" (Psalms 144:12). For such polish, Mrs. O'Mahony's fee is an abrasive $1,325 a year. Hundreds apply, but only 30 are chosen-"daughters of leaders, men of noble birth, aristocrats of achievement, a cross section of the nice people...
Robert P. Bland '62, of Straus Hall and Chestnut Hill, has been chosen captain of the freshman hockey team. Bland, a goalie, was a standout last year for The Noble and Greenough School...