Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Revolution have been on edgy terms with the White House ever since Franklin Roosevelt reminded them, in 1938, that "all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants." Harry Truman did not help matters in 1952 by suggesting that the ladies send a committee to count the bars of bullion at Fort Knox when they had expressed suspicion that some of the gold might be missing. So it was no wonder that the D.A.R. preened itself last year when Dwight Eisenhower came to address its annual meeting, the first President to do so in 16 years...
Although few students--less than one percent--get degrees, their presence has a great effect on the Extension. Because of them, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences periodically checks and approves Extension courses to make sure that they meet regular College standards and may count toward a Harvard degree. University buildings are used for all but three courses, the administrative offices have always been in the Yard, and the Extension directors and over half the faculty members have always been from the University. But the degree agreement is the only formal the Extension has with Harvard...
...most important man was not there. Absent was Wall Street Financier Patrick B. McGinnis, who won control of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad a year ago and now was out after control of the B. & M. But he dominated the meeting nevertheless. Even before B. & M. officials counted the proxies, they were ready to admit defeat. Both Board Chairman Edward S. French and President Timothy G. Sughrue resigned in expectation of a McGinnis victory; they were afraid that if they stayed on and were fired, they would lose their pension rights. They acted wisely. In the counting, McGinnis...
...Mangano) is a Venetian shopgirl. In the daytime she displays her glamorous glass for the customers; at night she is ready for broader interests. But Mario (Vittorio Gassman), her boy friend, is primarily interested in a phony buck, any way he can get it. When Silvana meets a no-count count (Michael Rennie), Vittorio sees his chance to do some three-cushion pimping. In the upshot Silvana gets drunk at a costume ball, has an experience with the count: "It was daybreak before I could leave-humiliated-disgusted ... I didn't know where I could hide-where I could...
...record crowd of over 1300 jammed Memorial Church yesterday morning to hear a sermon by Reinhold Niebuhr, vice-president of the Union Theological Seminary. The ushers lost count after 1200 worshippers had filled Appleton Chapel as well as the nave and balcony of the Church, where they sat on the stop until a policeman required them to stand so as not to block the aisles...