Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty minutes off Nantucket, Pilot John Burnham, 37, checked for a weather report with Cape Cod's Otis Air Force Base. He got welcome word: visibility at the island was four miles, with scattered clouds at 12,000 ft. Burnham zeroed in on Nantucket-and ran into one of...
Discontent with the past, as much as concern for the future, underlay France's passive acceptance of De Gaulle's severe formulas. Last week the special parliamentary commission meekly approved De Gaulle's proposed new constitution by a vote of 30-0 (with nine abstentions and absences...
Move en Masse? The ayurveda students found that they had no faith in such teachings, and they struck, protesting that they could not live half East and half West and demanding admission to medical school on a fulltime basis. "We are the world's most confused people," wailed one...
Taking up the threat of oncoming inflation, the Federal Reserve review speculated that further price rises might be held down by the large inventories still on hand. Recent price rises in steel and other raw materials, said the report, were encouraged by the Mideast crisis, and might prove to be...
The New Untouchables. In the '20s, Orwell - still known as Eric Blair* - was serving in Britain's Burma police and slowly becoming disillusioned with his Kiplingesque career. He could not bring himself to go on governing the "lesser breeds without the Law,'' but when he took...