Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frame, but looks not unlike him. Paul Bridgman, an educator, and Ramon George Sneyd, a policeman, whose names Ray used after he arrived in Toronto, are both 35 and have Ray's build. Police are still puzzling over how they were chosen...
...student assault conceded that some goals of the protesters were valid. Speaking at the University of Pennsylvania, CBS Chairman William S. Paley, a Columbia University trustee, admitted that he "questions the soundness today of the old theory of trustees as a small, self-perpetuating group of interested laymen, many chosen for life, into whose custody the full character and conduct of the university are reposed." At his university's commencement, Columbia Historian Richard Hofstadter heartily agreed that "powers need to be reallocated, new organs of decisions and communication need to be created, greater participation of students in university decisions...
Velasco, a 75-year-old law professor, has been chosen President five times since 1934. Three times Ecuador's army has turned him out of office prematurely, charging his governments with corruption, inefficiency and leftward drift. A master of demogogic oratory, he shuns all formal political parties and organizations and goes straight to the people, depending upon sheer mass appeal "Give me a balcony," he once boasted, "and I could be elected President anywhere." He does not even bother to offer voters a program "Why should I?" he asked at one campaign rally. "What this country needs...
...through the magic of ricochet and carom, they manage to do both with a single resounding shot. Such is the fate of this book. True Grit is a lean but plucky novel that has been sold to the movies for $300,000, serialized in the Saturday Evening Post and chosen as a Literary Guild selection. It is also gilded with literary quality that can delight book lovers as well as bookkeepers...
...CRIMSON has chosen the following men as the five outstanding senior athletes at Harvard in the year...