Word: formers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University will honor former President A. Lawrence Lowell at a 9 a.m. meeting in Lowell Lecture Hall this morning. President Pusey will speak on "Mr. Lowell's Legacy to Harvard," in commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lowell's inauguration as President...
...trouble started when Grivas, now a lieutenant general and back in restless retirement in Athens, began to rumble that prospective Cypriot President Makarios was making "too many concessions to Britain and the Turks." In reply, Makarios expelled from his Cyprus Reconstruction Front Fotis Papafotis, 26, former underground leader who lost a hand fighting the British. Papafotis, Makarios charged, was involved with a Grivas-backed group who were plotting the murder of Makarios and 50 of his supporters. As proof, the Archbishop exhibited an intercepted "assassination list" and a letter he said Grivas had written to Papafotis, urging replacement of Makarios...
...from many a shop window; on several occasions Baghdad police were obliged to fire over the heads of crowds staging anti-Kassem demonstrations. And rumors persisted that there was grave unrest in the Iraqi army, where there was bitter mourning for the senior officer executed, popular Brigadier Nadhem Tabakchali, former commander of Iraq's 2nd Division...
...high schools. Said Heiskell: "His decision to accept the position actually was delayed on his own motion for more than a year because of the school situation here." Long associated with Fund for Republic programs, Ashmore in his new job will join a group of scholars and experts, e.g., former Assistant Secretary of State A. A. Berle Jr., Columbia University's famed physicist I. Rabi, in a search for ways to improve the performance of mass means of communication...
...patients, that Les Alpes is only an interlude, a place where bracing air, good food, and the wonders of modern medicine will bring back a normal life and freedom from the threat of relapse. Many of the patients are graduates of other sanatoria, and their hopes are tempered by former failures. To a newcomer like Davenant, the experience is a trial that maltreats his body and corrodes his spirit...