Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Britain's Conservative Party Co-Chairman Iain Macleod resigned from the Cabinet last October, he went off to edit the liberal Tory Spectator, and for his nom de plume chose Chesterton's Quoodle. The name proved all too apt. Last week, in the wake of an embarrassing disclosure, many Tories were cursing Quoodle as a fink whose loose tongue was damaging Conservative chances in the forthcoming general election...
...agrees, and at an Alianza meeting in Sao Paulo last November, an eight-man inter-American executive committee was set up to act as a clearinghouse between the U.S. and its Alianza partners. Last week in Washington, the Inter-American Economic and Social Council of the OAS chose Carlos Sanz de Santamaria, 58, Colombia's Finance Minister, to boss the committee...
...picking Staack for its Old Testament lecture series over 20 other candidates, the National Council chose a well-qualified scholar with some hard experience in secular life as well. Staack studied at the universities of Berlin and Hamburg, was ordained a minister of the Hitler-hating Confessing Church in 1939. As it did with many other rebellious Lutheran pastors, the Nazi government drafted Staack for army service in 1939; he was wounded five times in eastern-front combat and spent ten months in Russian and British prison camps. He came to the U.S. in 1949 as a graduate fellow...
...past has recommended to many students that they wait a year before deciding whether to enter a graduate school. The drop in the average are of draftees--a result of President Kennedy's order exempting married men from the draft--means that graduating seniors will have to chose immediately between grad school and the Army...
Switch in Mid-Study. For his committee, Dr. Terry chose ten men of unquestionable repute from leading universities. None had ever taken a public stand on the controversy. Three, like Terry himself, smoked cigarettes: Minnesota's Dr. Leonard M. Schuman, Harvard's William G. Cochran and Dr. Louis F. Fieser. One smoked cigars: Michigan's Dr. Maurice H. Seevers. One smoked a pipe: Texas' Dr. Charles A. LeMaistre. Five were nonsmokers: the Army's (formerly Cornell's) Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Pittsburgh's Dr. Emmanuel Farber, Utah's Dr. Walter J. Burdette...