Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Live Peace." In his brief airport statement, Ike delivered his theme message of "peace and friendship in freedom," noted that in the U.S. more than 10 million Italian-descended citizens claim heritage "from the Italian civilization." Then he got into Gronchi's official Fiat, drove the long way into Rome along the Old Appian Way-the historic route. Crowd turnout in the heavy rain: thin. The motorcade rolled through the Gate of San Sebastiano, past the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum, into the Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini used to strut and harangue. Even there, only...
...gymkhana sponsored by the MIT Sports Car Club, Phil Bradley took the touring class in his Fiat 1100, and Grey Jones placed a close second in the small sports class with his MGA 1600. His time was the second fastest...
...this light, the disenchantment of Matos is understandable. As the Castro government continues to develop into rule by personal fiat, it moves further and further from its earlier liberalism. In more than nine months of life, the revolutionary government has hardly begun to fulfill its initial promises, and Dr. Castro can expect increasing, and perhaps more violent, criticism. Anti-communist army officers are already threatening a revolt...
Peter L. V. Hutchinson '63, driving an Austin-Healey Sprite, managed a very close win over a Fiat Abarth 750 by the slim margin of eight hundredths of a second. Safely winning the next class by a solid four seconds was HMSC President Peter G. Sachs '61, in his Porsche Coupe. J. Grey Jones '61 took third in the same event with...
Though the university won the wage battle, it lost out in attempting to maintain a 13:1 student-faculty ratio. Legislative fiat revised this figure to 15:1. (Harvard's ratio is approximately 3.1.) "Even if we received the salary increase, we lost out," Mather comments wryly, "since professors are not interchangeable parts. The type of thinking--that a 13:1 ratio means there are 13 students to each class--is completely wrong. This makes professors only teachers; they must have time to think up ideas." With so much time necessarily devoted to instruction, few members of the UMass faculty...