Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other kinds of dispatches. In his letter to President Eisenhower about why-not-get-together-at-a-parley-at-the-summit, Khrushchev called Cat Brown a lunatic. Brown considered this a compliment. Three days later, Brown learned that at year's end he will get a fourth star and command of NATO's Southern Europe command based in Naples...
...idealistically unrealistic" marriages and "hyperemotional eroticism," complained Father Cervantes, and cited a recent poll, conducted among 20-year-old marriageable girls in twelve cities, that disclosed that their choices for an "ideal" husband, in order of popularity, were 1) Perry Como, 2) William Holden, 3) Rock Hudson. Tied for fourth place were President Eisenhower and Tab Hunter; Elvis Presley tied Tony Curtis for fifth. Classed together as good No. 6 husbands: Marlon Brando, Jeff Chandler, James Dean, Senator John F. Kennedy, Jerry Lewis, Vice President Nixon. This sort of "romantic cult" nonsense, concluded Jesuit Cervantes, is the basic cause...
Three new campuses are planned in the areas of La Jolla, southeast Los Angeles and south of San Francisco. By 1970 the new schools should be educating some 35,000 students. A fourth new campus, for 5,000 students, may be built in the San Joaquin Valley...
...saddle-high on a job that is probably the biggest in U.S. education, and is destined to grow a lot bigger. Today California has eight campuses and 42,114 students (the country's second largest university: Minnesota, with 35,000 students). Three more campuses are planned, and a fourth is talked of; by 1970 the university is expected to be educating an awesome 108,300 students. Clark Kerr's university includes...
Kent Murray, fourth child of a New Canaan, Conn. insurance agent (who doubles nights and weekends as a jazz drummer), had a normal birth but looked alarmingly blue and immediately needed oxygen. Still blue when he went home, he got bluer when he cried. Kent grew normally, but whenever he tried to play tag with other youngsters, he turned blue and gasped for breath. When he was five, doctors at the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital found that his heart had only one ventricle (lower chamber). The result was that freshly oxygenated blood from the lungs was mixed in this...