Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first election is to be held early next year, and the Congress chosen then will select a President. Presently favored by all but right-wing Conservatives is Guillermo León Valencia, a middle-of-the-road Conservative. He will take office Aug. 7, and the ruling five-man military junta has promised for its part to step out on that date...
...Charles E. Spahr, 44, executive vice president of Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) since 1955, was chosen president to succeed Clyde T. Foster, 64, who continues as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. The youngest president in Sohio history, Spahr graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Kansas in 1934 and from Harvard Business School in 1938. He worked briefly for Phillips Petroleum Co., joined Sohio in 1939 as a pipeline engineer before going to Burma in World War II as an Army Corps of Engineers major in charge of pipeline construction. Back at Sohio, he took...
...when suddenly the sound track fills with singing birds and a music of axles, bright September blows into the theater, tingling in the thoughts like merry harvest weather. Director Dreyer loves the human face ("A land one can never tire of exploring"), and he has chosen his faces with a sure insight. Best of all, perhaps, are the faces of the pregnant woman (Birgitte Federspiel) and her husband (Emil Haas Christensen), which make a simple, touching revelation: that they are deeply and quietly and naturally in love...
...Justice Reed the commission could lose much of its potency. The delay in choosing Reed's successor has also harmed chances of the group's eventual success, for it has only a two-year life-span. The other members of the commission are all responsible men, but they were chosen largely by Reed and may not work as well under a different chief...
Lawrence Ekpebu of Lowell, Chitranjan Kapur of Winthrop, and Lionel B. Spiro of Leverett, were chosen to represent the class of '60. Both Dogherty and Gracey had expressed opinions favoring changes in the present status of the Student Council, whereas Leland criticized any plan for a referendum on the matter...