Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name is Maria Gabriella Giuseppa Aldegonda Adelaide Margherita Ludovica Felicita Gennara di Savoia. The founder of her house was Humbert the White-handed, who ruled Savoy in the 11th century. Among her ancestors are saints, Holy Roman and Byzantine emperors, antipopes, French and Belgian princesses, Italian and Balkan nobility and kings of lands as widely separated as Spain and Cyprus and England. Italy, last week, was in a ferment over Princess Maria Gabriella. The report was that she might marry a king twice her age whose father had been an army private...
...been vacant since Mao Tse-tung stepped down in December (while hanging on to his all-powerful chairmanship of the party). In the rumor mills of Hong Kong the favored candidate to succeed him is Soong Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), 68-year-old widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, and sister of Madame Chiang Kaishek. Though not a member of the Communist Party, Madame Soong has often been trotted out to endorse Red policies. Long regarded by many an overseas Chinese as a cultured, sincere woman, she is both admired and pitied as a bird...
...less a cultural crusade than a political power play. Plans drawn up by the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center ("MeBAC"), a group formed to direct the project, threaten not only to ruin local classical drama companies by excluding them from the Center, but also, because of this apparent inequity, to founder the whole project before it gets under...
Much of this progress has come under President Beise, 60, a Minnesota doctor's son who is as calm and unruffled as the late Bank of America Founder A. P. Giannini was irascible and temperamental. Beise (rhymes with icy) joined the Bank of America in 1936 at Giannini's invitation after an early career in banking, took over as president in 1954. So wrapped up is he in his job that he has given up all outside hobbies (except gardening). His chief task has been to transform the bank from the temperamental, one-man bailiwick of autocratic...
Helmus, described as "always active in Harvard affairs," is founder and former president of the Harvard Club of Western South Carolina...