Word: greys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...benign-looking as ever. Beside him, applauding energetically, was Nikita Khrushchev, ruler of all the Russias, who had arrived from Moscow by propjet the day before to help celebrate the tenth anniversary of Red rule in China. Just a step behind the two leaders loomed a tall, gaunt, grey-faced figure whose voice and countenance were far better known to the ruling circles of Communism than to the paraders below. His name: Liu Shao-chi. His rank: Chairman of the Chinese People's Republic. His potent role: the No. 2 man of Red China, and steely disciplinarian...
...Conciliation and Arbitration, Maria Cristina Salmoran de Tamayo, 36, has about 150 men working under her-including her own husband. A woman, Maria Lavalle Urbina, runs the federal prison and parole board; Francisca Dolores Valdes de Lanz Duret is president and manager of Mexico City's good grey daily, El Universal. In Mexico City alone there are more than 225 women lawyers; across the nation there are over 1,000 chemists. At the National University, women studying to be veterinarians outnumber men; the dental school is 30% female, the department of economics...
...CRIMSON offers undeniable rewards. Editorial and news writers can survey their efforts in the cold grey light of dawn. Sports writers learn to dodge hungry athletes during off hours, while the photo board discovers the financial rewards of a well-timed and perhaps embarrassing snapshot...
Boxing's No. 1 hood is natty Frankie ("Mr. Grey") Carbo, 55, among whose brushes with the law is a conviction for manslaughter. Boxing's leading intellectual is a suave, light-skinned Negro lawyer named Truman K. Gibson Jr., 47, who had remained unsullied by the fight game's messier side while supplying the brainpower for Jim Norris' monopolistic International Boxing Club (dissolved by a U.S. Supreme Court decision in January). Last week, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed down an indictment that lumped together Gibson and Carbo, plus a dull-eyed Philadelphia thug...
...Grey Jones, Jr. '61, secretary-treasurer of the Harvard Motor Sports Club, won the speed championship in a sports car gymkhana sponsored by the Boston Motor Sports Club at Shoppers' World in Framingham Sunday afternoon...