Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public event in Mexico can hardly be called official until there has been a scuffle between the camera-toting Casasolas. Members of Mexico's royal family of photography have been fighting among themselves ever since Grandfather Agustín turned picture-taker 70 years ago. Says smiling Grandmother Doña Refugio: "My husband Agustín taught them to fight for their pictures, and that's the way it should be. And anyway, we are all united in the big projects...
...four years, Pepsi-Cola's annual show has become a major art event. The cogent reason: Pepsi offers more cash (though not more prestige) than any other art show. This year's payoff: $35,950 in prizes...
...most significant event in ecclesiastical history since the Reformation." So said Presbyterian Patriarch Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin...
...home" divisions are already being grouped in six armies whose locations suggest the fronts on which Soviet Russia expects to have to fight in the event of another war: North army, based on Leningrad; Western army, based on Minsk; Southern army, based on Odessa; Caucasian army, based on Tiflis; Turkestan army, based on Tashkent and Frunze; Far Eastern army, based on Chita and Vladivostok. The armies are commanded as follows: Northern, Marshal Klimenti E. Voroshilov; Western, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky; Southern, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov; Caucasian, Marshal Ivan Bagramian; Turkestan, Marshal Semion K. Timoshenko; Far Eastern, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky. Eight...
...Freshman race preceding the main event, Northeastern outran the Yardlings 24 to 31, despite the efforts of J. H. Pankey. Pankey's second-place time of 17 minutes, 43 seconds for the 3 1/4 mile course was better than any Freshman time recorded last year...