Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed ready to agree to another Big Four conference, and to lift its counter-blockade. But it was not willing to abandon its plans for Western Germany. Day before the Tass announcement, the Western Powers reported full agreement with the West Germans on their proposed constitution. West Germany was closer to statehood than ever before (see below...
...pension at 50, Riders will probably bring about $30,000. And Stan has more songs on the griddle. One is called Whirlwind, and his publishers are puffing it as "just as good as Riders." The ranch of his own, complete with organ, that Stan wanted by 1965, looked much closer...
...answer, CBS finally decided, was that most people tend to retain what they see more readily than what they hear. Television, which demands closer visual attention than the ordinary, unselected sights of everyday life, closer even than movies, may exaggerate this tendency. The TV audience had not seen the locksmith, but had heard him speak several times during the play. Yet, reasons CBS, the audience was looking so hard that it forgot to listen, and could not place the murderer's voice. Later that night CBS was forced to telecast a "news bulletin" announcing the identity of the killer...
...Staying closer to home, other astronomers have been studying the sun's immediate family of planets. Last week, New York University's Dr. Hans Panofsky gave the American Meteorological Society the latest word on Jupiter's atmospheric oddities. Oddest is the "red spot," a cloud 30,000 miles long and about 10,000 miles wide which goes around the planet's axis in a little less than ten hours. Its speed varies a few yards per second; so do the earth's westerly winds. Both, presumably, are reacting to a common cause-something...
Agenda for the conference, made of suggestions from all seven visiting colleges councils, is divided into three parts; the role of Student Government, which will include discussions on how to bring students and faculty closer together, and a re-evaluation of the work of curricular committees in all colleges...