Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home again, Rockefeller got a business challenge from his father. To provide a site for a new opera house, John D. Jr. had bought up a dozen acres of mid-Manhattan brownstones just off Fifth Avenue. The opera house fell through. Undaunted, John D. Jr. decided to erect an integrated system of office buildings, courts and shops. Floor after grey granite floor of what was to become the 15-building Rockefeller Center was rising. Nelson Rockefeller's task: to rent at the depths of the Depression no less than 5,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space...
Last week, as Quemoy endured the fifth week of its ordeal and the Warsaw talks showed no progress, Chiang's attitude hardened. The last advocate of restraint among his advisers had fallen silent. Chiang reportedly urged his case in a series of lunches and meetings in Taipei with U.S. Ambassador Everett Drumwright, Admiral Harry Felt, commander in chief of U.S. Forces in the Pacific, and Vice Admiral Roland Smoot, U.S. commander in the Formosa area...
Premier Charles de Gaulle asked France for a vote of confidence and this week got a thunderous shout of approval. An overwhelming 80% of French voters plumped for his version of the Fifth Republic. In De Gaulle's home village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, where the Premier was an early-morning voter at the town hall, 'the count on his referendum was oui, 195; non, 1. De Gaulle telephoned friends in Paris to assure them he was not the dissident voter...
Statisticians uncovered the news that it was the first homer by a pitcher since 1940, when hurler Bucky Walters hit one. It was the fifth such home run in world series history...
Changes between the last Parliment of the Fourth Republic and the first Parliament of the Fifth are likely to result from the new electoral system as much as from possible shifts in the population's votes. What the system will be is still unknown; it is de Gaulle's present cabinet which will be is still unknown; it is de Gaulle's present cabinet which will determine it, and each party is busy advocating the electoral law which is most likely to increase its representation in the next Assembly...