Word: groups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prophet. When four years ago MacArthur stood, tieless and ramrod straight, on the veranda deck of the U.S.S. Missouri, accepting Japan's surrender from a group of uniformed and frock-coated little men, neither he nor his nation realized that...
Young bought control of I.D.S. from a group of associates headed by Bert C. Gamble, chairman of Minneapolis' Gamble-Skogmo retail chain (519 stores). Gamble had bought his own holdings in I.D.S. as a personal investment for less than $500,000 in 1945 and, in the resale to Young, made a tidy profit of more than $800,000 (less the 25% capital-gains tax). Even so, he thought Young had bought control "very cheap...
Some of the phenomena have not been fully explained, and reports still come in at the rate of about twelve a month; but the National Military Establishment is not worried. Group suggestibility and "vertigo" and the difficulty of judging the speed and distance of an airborne object give plenty of material for the human imagination to work on. In the case of flying saucers, it appears to have worked hard. Since no single bolt or rivet of a mysterious aircraft has yet been found, there is no reason to believe that either Russians or Martians have been tearing...
...some years before the war, the University had such a group, the Harvard Film Society; it was run purely by undergraduates, like the Dramatic Club, and when its leaders graduated (one of whom now sponsors the Boston Film Society) there was no permanent sponsorship to ensure the organization's continuance...
...panels of architects, sociologists, and writers will discuss city planning today in Littauer Auditorium. The first group, starting out at 9:30 a.m., will worry about "regional problems." After a break for beer and sandwiches at noon, the planners will start discussion on "the local environment...