Word: glens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador to Ethiopia: Dr. Joseph Simonson, 49, a Lutheran clergyman from Glen Cove...
...Mahan, Biochemical Sciences; Burton G. Malkiel, Economics; M. Joel Mandelbaum, Music; James W. Mason, English; Ralph N. Maud, English; Paul T. McElroy, Physics; Abbott R. Miller, Chemistry; Bruce H. Morgan, Physics; Ivan Nabokoff, English; John R. O'Brien, Government; Roger S. Peterson, Biology; Stephen R. Petschek, History and Literature; Glen A. Rebka, Jr., Physics; Walter R. Reitman, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Richard L. Renfield, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Rodman D. Rhodes, English; Robert Rosenman, Government...
Lucky Break. Bridgehampton (pop. 1,499) was chiefly worried about danger to spectators. Road racing had got a black eye when a youngster watching from the sidewalk was killed at the Watkins Glen race last fall (Lloyd's of London jacked up the insurance rates for road-race organizers after that one). Moreover, earlier last week, road racing had taken another blow when New York's Governor Tom Dewey banned road racing from all state highways. Bridgehampton's town board decided to double the number of special policemen (increasing them to 240), let the races...
...green dress and her bronze knee-length hair done up in thick braids, Maud Gonne rode into Donegal, where the British battering rams had made a thousand people homeless. She organized resistance meetings, put hope into the peasants, fear into landlords' agents. Once, riding through a mountain glen, she came upon police guarding four young prisoners. Said she, in a voice of authority: "Let them go now; I take full responsibility," and waved the prisoners away. The peasants called her a Woman of the Sidhe, one with magic powers. Her fame spread. An elderly English liberal baronet followed...
Other winners are Glen E. Gresham of Lowell and Detroit, University of Montpellier; Henry J. Landau of Adams and New York City, University of Paris; Paul M. Mabry of Lowell and Boston, Academy of Music, Vienna; and Malcolm D. Rivkin of Kirkland and Hyde Park, Mass., University of Amsterdam...