Word: civilities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that reaffirmed Mexican-U.S. ideals, spent half an hour with Premier Abdallah Ibrahim of Morocco, presumably talking over Morocco's reluctance to renew the lease of key U.S. air bases. ¶Accepted with regret the resignation of Virginia's former Governor John S. Battle from the Civil Rights Commission, started the tough job of finding another Southerner to serve in Battle's place. ¶Nominated John D. Hickerson, able U.S. Ambassador to Finland since 1955, to succeed Washington-bound Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen in Manila...
...White House announced the back-to-work order will be sought in federal district court in Pittsburgh this afternoon. Pittsburgh is headquarters of the steel union. The bid will be made by George C. Doub, asistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's civil division...
Message from John. After weathering the Civil War (when enrollment was down to five), the North American College gradually became part of the Roman scene. In 1928 North American College students helped ease expanding Rome's shortage of priests by assisting at Masses and blessing Roman buildings on Holy Saturday. Noted one exhausted student priest in his diary: "Blessed six palazzi. Everything possible. Butcher shop. Wine cellar. Sleeping baby. Woman 91 years old. Water-when...
...their dedicated isolation, Shaker communities hit on a host of new forms and techniques that have become commonplace. Before the Civil War, Shakers invented a flat broom, a wheel-driven washing machine, a circular saw, a tilt-back chair (on ball-and-sockets) and, a century before its use in medicine, electric shock therapy, using a primitive static-electricity generator...
...Club's advisors--Lt. N. M. Tollefson of the Navy ROTC, and Capt. O'Connor of the Air Force ROTC unit--run a weekly ground school where members can study weather, navigation, care of aircraft, and civil flight regulations...