Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Merit Scholarship Corp., IBM will each year pick (on a competitive basis) 25 children of employees and 25 seniors from secondary schools all over the U.S. for four-year scholarships of varying amounts. In addition to the scholarships. IBM will provide a special cost-of-education gift to each school chosen by its winners. The average annual tab to be picked up by the company once it has 200 students under its wing...
Five Pairs of Glasses. King Saud, who had extended his visit a week beyond the three days originally scheduled, prepared for his departure in high spirits. The President gave the King an eight-piece desk set and an original Eisenhower Colorado landscape; the wealthy monarch's gift to Ike was a well-guarded secret. No secret was the King's enormous gratitude for the way Americans had opened their arms to Saud's lame little son (see below). The King himself was the richer, materially, in five pairs of eyeglasses, which he ordered after an eye examination...
With her series of books, and especially her bestselling meditation on the place of women-Gift From the Sea (TIME, March 21, 1955)-Author Lindbergh had built up a large and passionately loyal following among U.S. females, as the first mail deliveries to the Saturday Review quickly proved. "How could any one individual be so cruel?" cried one writer. "I have never seen such cruel, carping criticism of even the trashiest book!" exclaimed another. The Review received a cascade of letters, the vast majority attacking Ciardi's review. Most were from women, and they assailed Ciardi's blunt...
...Light. Like other first-rate intellects, Von Neumann had an uncanny gift for explanation, and the wonder of clear communication in his abstruse field happened whether he was talking to a packed lecture hall or to a single listener. He would grin, draw a few symbols on the blackboard, say a few simple words and grin again. Then, little by little, a new kind of light would begin to shine on the most difficult subject...
...wife. Last year Mrs. Ford spotted the small Rembrandt in Manhattan's Rosenberg & Stiebel Inc., felt that it was "one of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen." The Fords decided to buy it, paid an estimated $50,000, and made it their first gift to the Detroit museum...