Word: commissioners
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Died. Oliver Ellsworth Buckley, 72, president (1940-51) and board chairman (1951-52) of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., member (1948-54) of the general advisory committee of the Atomic Energy Commission; of pneumonia; in Maplewood, N.J.
Martin I. v. George V. But last week the world moved closer all the same. Across the channel, the Devon County Council had sent off a letter to Her Majesty's Boundary Commission urging its claims on Lundy. For one thing, argued the council, if ever a crime were...
Waste and graft are high. After Peru contracted to buy four submarines from the U.S.'s General Dynamics Corp, word leaked out that the nephew of the navy minister who ordered the subs stood to collect a $300,000 "commission." The latest scandal brewing is in Cuba, where Fidel...
One day last month. Student Barbara Jean Herin, 16, came home with The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse, asked her mother to read aloud as she ironed. For Mrs. Herin, a devout Baptist, it was an unsettling experience. Out of her mouth came the strange words of one Ogden...
The Greccio crib had an instant appeal to the people, with its direct and silent simplicity in an age when the mystery plays had become elaborate and verbose. More and more, painters and sculptors began to concentrate on the episodes surrounding the birth of Jesus, and Renaissance nobles as well...