Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There exists, however, among Southerners at Harvard a difference greater than that of separate kinds of origin. They do not, significantly, all fit the traditional pattern of white, Protestant, Bible-carrying segregationists. Their race and religion are as varied as that of any geographical group of comparable size...
Canadians need no computer to know that small European cars are wheeling the nation's imported car dealers down the highway to prosperity. Compact little Volkswagens, Austins, Simcas and British Fords scoot buglike along the roads, sit -and fit-snugly in many a next-door neighbor's garage, cut tight corners into supermarket parking slots. Last week the Dominion Bureau of Statistics cranked up its computers nonetheless, and produced some staggering figures. Though sales of new cars and commercial vehicles slipped 7.3% in the first seven months of 1958, import sales shot up 52%. In July imported foreign...
Role Fitters. It was almost easy to fit actors to the roles as they emerged in the script. Actor Thomas Gomez was a natural; without a bit of special makeup he was Georgy Malenkov's double. Luther Adler fitted smoothly into place as Molotov, Oscar Homolka as Khrushchev, E. G. Marshall as Beria. Stalin was harder to cast. After considering Laurence Olivier and José Ferrer, Coe decided on Melvyn Douglas, whom he had admired as Clarence Darrow in Inherit the Wind...
Emily is too hard on Tom. He is, in fact, a pretty nice chap: humorous, too generous, and at 50-odd still fit and handsome. If his plays have not been great, they have at least been craftsmanlike and successful. If Tom has a fault, it is that he gives his first loyalty to the theater, something that not even an actress can forgive. But in any case, Emily no longer matters much to Tom. It is Rhoda, his first wife and only love, who fills his thoughts. Any Marquand fan knows what happens next: a flashback (by the best...
...last spring revealed that a majority of the students polled favored Harvard's remaining in N.S.A. Though the results of this poll are far from conclusive, they constitute the only definite indication of student opinion on N.S.A. Yet the Council--which considers itself a representative of student feeling--saw fit to ignore this poll entirely...