Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Porcellian's Final Dinner (the last function of the punching season for all the clubs), each prospective member is required to tell one dirty joke, and his success in amusing the members often determines his fate at election time. New members are elected in December and initiated in February, when they are filled full of alchohol, led blindfolded through the Porcellian cubhouse, and finally unveiled before a large assemblage of exultant graduate members...
...ministers meet in Brussels to wrestle with the consequences of De Gaulle's withdrawal from the alliance's integrated military commands due July 1st. One consequence is that SHAPE, the command headquarters, must leave Paris. Most likely new home: Brussels. Another matter to be decided is the fate of some 27,000 French troops now stationed in West Germany under NATO. Both Bonn and Paris, for their own reasons, would like the French to stay. But if France is not in NATO, how can the troops' presence be justified? The Germans will not accept any solution that...
Such was the fate of Julius Paider, driver of a Manhattan moving van. Ruling in his favor, the state workman's compensation board declared that Paider's sickness was "due to the nature of the employment." But the New York State Supreme Court's appellate division disagreed. Voiding Paider's award, the court ruled that "it was the co-employee and not the occupation that caused the disease...
...fact, Nancy spent only about five hours in jail. Still fighting hard, Renga wasted no time obtaining a writ of beas corpus that freed Nancy on own recognizance until a higher court reviews her case this week. Whatever her fate, Judge Kearney has triggered public debate in California that is likely to rage for quite awhile...
Either Miss Bacall's part was slowly edited down to its present size, or else she was convinced by the proverbial agent's line about how you're the one they'll notice. Whichever, Lauren Bacall deserved a better fate...