Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 2,700 of Dartmouth's 2,800 undergraduates had dates for the weekend, however, and a party that big just couldn't be kept completely private. Although all fraternities officially demanded both dates and guest cards as admission certificates, it was occassionally possible to discover a long-lost friend inside
...even the tough no of tough George Humphrey swayed Adnan Menderes. Having exhausted the advice of one invited guest and turned down the advice of its ally, the Turkish government called in yet another adviser to give it the benefit of his advice and his knowledge of the ways of U.S. Government. As the legal counsel to the Turkish government in the U.S. (TIME, Oct. 16), Manhattan Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey has already taken a look at Turkey's economic affairs and will soon be busy in the U.S. studying what can be done about them. Turkey seems...
...went on trial for "criminal negligence." One of the beneficiaries of his kindness, himself on trial for forging his own passes out of the prison, did his best to help. "Sometimes I gave him a swig of red Bordeaux or a chicken wing," testified the prisoner. "He was my guest, that's all." Billa's lawyer entered an eloquent appeal: "Billa is a pioneer of the new penitentiary doctrine which, so far as possible, would keep the prisoner from any contact with the prison." But all this was of no avail. Ex-Warden Billa was sentenced to serve...
Help came from, of all places, Belgium and the U.S. Navy. Prince Albert of Belgium, in the U.S. as the Navy's guest, paid a courtesy call at West Point and exercised the traditional royal prerogative to request a pardon for all cadets under punishment. The amnesty freed Zeigler, and raised the odds to even money that Army would...
...iron-mining hamlet of Witherbee. N.Y. (pop. 1,050), hometown of Johnny Podres, the son of a Lithuanian-American miner. Series Hero Podres, who earns about $1 1,000 for an entire season's work, stayed in Manhattan just long enough to pick up $3,000 for TV guest appearances, and a $9,768 check for his winner's share of the series gate. Then he drove home to Witherbee in a new white Corvette sports car that he won for being the series star. A testimonial dinner was planned at first but had to be called...