Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others resulting from paralytic polio. The polio cases tend to be more severe because other parts of the body are also weakened; usually a greater part of the spine has to be fused, often in a series of operations. But post-polio cases are already becoming markedly less common, thanks largely to the success of the Salk vaccine...
...Rome and Greece with such elegance and authority that his Palladian style became one of the longest-lasting and most widely accepted personal idioms in the history of architecture. In an effort to preserve Pal-ladio's work (many of his most beautiful structures were made of common brick and perishable stucco), the Italian government late last year appropriated more than $3,000,000. Highest priority items for the rehabilitation program are the most delightful of all Palladio's creations-the villas he designed along the Brenta Canal and in the gently undulating plain of the Veneto region...
Illustrating the "unpredictability" of modern history, Conant described the change in French policy toward Germany. Both French and German parliaments have recently ratified the Saar agreement and proposals leading towards a European Common Market and a European Atomic Authority, although as recently as 1953 the proposed European army failed to be ratified...
Jews, Christians and Moslems recognize Abraham as a common spiritual ancestor, and all three faiths look to the Genesis account of how the Lord told him: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great nation.'' What were Abraham's country and kindred like, and what sort of land did God show him? Modern scholarship, drawing on the latest findings of archaeology and textual research, is able to propose answers to those questions...
...Sheraton-Astor Hotel and in nine other cities. Its programs are broadly divided into studies of basic-management principles, organization-building, planning and controlling, and appraisal of operational performance. They include a deadly earnest game in which five teams of executives battle to win shares of a mythical common market. Like an adult Monopoly, the game allows each team a certain amount of money, gives each team a chance to increase its take by making decisions on such problems as advertising, promotion, distribution, etc., scores performances with an electronic computer. Cost for the two-week course: $960. Last year A.M.A...