Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate is the College's fourth increase in ten years, and the fifth since 1929 when tuition stood at $400. The raise will make Harvard the most expensive college in the country...
...fact, served mostly to make the office of the Secretary of Defense itself an unwieldy, sprawling compromise of an organization, with nine assistant secretaries, about 300 committees and 2,151 staffers. Far from working toward unification of forces, the Defense Secretary's office has virtually become a fourth service. It sits uneasily atop the civilian hierarchies of the Army, Navy and Air Force, with the power of military decision farther and farther removed from trained military men. Results: wasted money, duplicated effort, lost time and, above all, chronic indecision...
...visited Eva, 28, at her mother's cottage in a London suburb two days in a row last week. Also there to greet Milford Haven was Eva's mystery moppet Deana, born to her last October in London almost a year after her divorce from her fourth husband. Eva had refused to name the father-though brightly adding that "I know who he is." As the marquess strode from the cottage after a ten-hour get-together, shivering newshounds outside helpfully suggested that wedding bells might be ringing soon. "Romance? Marriage?" snapped Milford Haven. "What are you talking...
When Carter Burgess, Assistant Secretary of Defense for manpower got the offer of the job as president of Trans World Airlines a year ago, he told friends: "Opportunity and danger are very much alike." The opportuniy was obvious: he took over the nation's fourth larges air carrier at $65,00 a year (v. his $19,000 Government pay) with the goal of getting it our of the red. The danger: eccentric Howard Hughes. T.W.A's owner. a boss as hard to please as a psychiatrist...
Captain Bob Foster, wrestling for the first time this season, took the highest honors for the varsity, as he placed fourth in the 167-pound class. After scoring easy wins in his preliminary rounds, Foster ran afoul of the tournament's outstanding performers, Dave Johnson, a Pitt standout. Johnson scored a quick first period takedown, but Foster just as quickly reversed, tying the score at two-all. Johnson however escaped and later added a reversal and riding time...