Word: donalds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this type of understanding of a country's customs and people, rather than a superficial tourist's view, that Donald B. Watt had in mind 26 years ago when he made plans for the first Experiment group to go to Switzerland. That first Experiment, in 1932, took a group of American boys to a camp with German and Belgian youths...
...debunked the latest outgrowth of Sputnikery--"flying-sauceritis," but deferred to Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory for an authoritative attack on the latest flying saucer scare...
Caught cold by this counterstroke, Canada's Finance Minister Donald Fleming could only cite the "formidable difficulties" in the way of Thorneycroft's plan. Spokesmen for Canada's automobile, textile and electrical-appliance industries quickly and hotly seconded him. Fleming thereupon hastened to spell out far more specifically than ever before what his government had in mind in making the original proposal for a 15% shift. Canada, he said, would switch all possible government purchasing from the U.S. to the U.K., would send a high-level trade delegation to Britain, and would consider lowering barriers against purchases...
...Crescendo, a big CBS variety show, some of its infrequent high moments. ¶ Standard Oil's (NJ.) $600,000 75th Anniversary Show, to be staged in color over NBC (9 to 10:30 p.m., E.D.T.) by Theaterman Cyril Ritchard, stars Tyrone Power, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr, Donald O'Connor, Jane Powell, Marge and Gower Champion, Brandon de Wilde, Duke Ellington, Eddie Mayehoff, Kay Thompson, Columnist Art Buchwald and British Cartoonist Ronald Searle...
...give protection against early attacks. By midwinter it may do more good. Some San Francisco doctors, however, declared the vaccine is only 50% effective. Shooting from the hip, they charged that the whole vaccination program was a piece of engineered hysteria to promote vaccine sales. Said Medical Society President Donald M. Campbell: "I'm giving vaccine only to relieve near-hysteria...