Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faces were different, all right, as Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy called three men accused of being big-city pinball kingpins. But, as Kennedy expected, answers were the same: gruff Fifth Amendment monotones were rattled off by hard-eyed John Vitale of St. Louis, Michael Genovese of Pittsburgh, and Frank Zito of Springfield, Ill. Protested Zito with heavy accent: "I recline to answer." But other witnesses were more inclined. Among them...
Behind Charles de Gaulle's decision to grant Ely such sweeping authority lay one of the great continuing struggles of France's Fifth Republic. When De Gaulle took office last June, some of his critics, disregarding the record of his previous self-restraint in power, freely predicted that he would soon be dictator of France. Nine months later De Gaulle is still waging a cautious and complicated campaign to win full mastery over the very force that sparked his return to power-the French army...
...Harvard Rifle Team upset a strong Princeton squad to capture the Ivy rifle crown in the League tournament Saturday at New Haven. The Crimson compiled an impressive score of 1403 points, as Yale took second with 1388. Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cornell finished third, fourth, and fifth respectively...
...Greenwich, R.I., a fiberglass mold was built around a wooden mockup of Tripp's design. From the mold came the racers themselves, including Rhubarb, Southern Star II and Lorenzen's boat Seal. Last year the three sister yawls performed beautifully in the Newport-to-Bermuda race, finished fifth, sixth and seventh in a huge field of 110 boats...
...Russian students who escape the frequent opportunities to flunk, the ten-year school can be an efficient factory of learning. Children start when they are seven, go through only four years of elementary school. The next year-their fifth-they begin a stiff, six-day-a-week secondary school program. By the time a Russian child reaches the eighth year, he is assumed to have a thorough knowledge of grammar-a subject most U.S colleges find it necessary to pound into freshmen. By graduation, he has studied one foreign language for six years, has been exposed to 4½ years...