Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twenty-Fifth Reunion Class of 1934 met at a reception in Harkness Commons yesterday. Other classes having formal reunion events during the week...
Chairman Fulbright opened last week's hearings on the Reid nomination with the announcement that he had "15 or 20 minutes of questions." He then proceeded to grill Reid for 5½ hours. Asked Fulbright: "Tell the committee where you had your formal education." Reid cleared his throat, said he had been formally educated at Yale...
...Russians demanded that the speeches of Lothar Bolz, East Germany's pompous, vitriol-spewing Foreign Minister, be published as part of the official conference record. (Refusing, the conference secretariat noted that the question was one on which there was "permanent disagreement.") And at the week's first formal session, Gromyko, who was chairman, broke an implicit promise to let Secretary of State Christian Herter speak first by unexpectedly recognizing Bolz-who promptly launched into a Gromyko-like denunciation of West German rearmament, while Herter fumbled with his spectacles ("Perhaps I was negligent...
Last week both sides had had enough, hammered out mutually acceptable terms: a written guarantee of pension benefits, increased job security, a 3.3% wage increase. St. Louis guild leaders, passing the terms along to international headquarters for formal endorsement, hailed them as the fruits of victory...
Schlesinger revealed that the committee has reached "a final decision" and will make a formal recommendation to the Radcliffe trustees on June 9. But he refused to make any statement about the identity of the nominee, beyond the assurance that "it's neither Eleanor Roosevelt nor Clare Booth Luce...