Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosperous town of Luneville in the French duchy of Lorraine. Historians guess that La Tour went to Rome as a young man, learned there the technique of Caravaggio's dramatically spotlighted paintings. Back home he refined his work to make light itself not only a dramatic highlight but the modeling element and dramatic center of his painting...
Such opinions highlight a growing revulsion-among both men and women-to the much-publicized concept of a "corporate wife." The men who hire or promote executives are still far more interested in the husband's abilities than in the wife's worth. Said an Atlanta executive: "We need good men so bad they could be married to almost anyone and we'd grab 'em. Of course, we'd prefer that she not use a toothpick, but beyond that she's his problem, not ours." Most corporations hope for some social relationships among executives...
Meanwhile, in New Haven on Saturday, Yale displayed some of the latent power which it has kept at least partially under wraps all season, in overwhelming Princeton, 66 to 20. One week ago the Crimson defeated the same opponent by the slightly smaller margin of 66 to 24. Highlight of the Eli victory was the performance of the 400-yard freestyle relay team. A quartet made up of Rex Aubrey, Dave Armstrong, Roger Anderson, and Tim Jaecko raced to a world's record time of 3 minutes 16.1 seconds in this event. In the process, Armstrong, Anderson, and Jaecko were...
...conference on teaching the nature of Communism and another on the growing importance of political geography will highlight the 1957 Harvard Summer School, Summer School Director William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, has announced...
Lofty Pomp. Thus began a long series of official functions with Ike, Dulles, Richard Nixon, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, and official talks with the President and the Secretary of State. Highlight of the week was Ike's high-level, white-tie stag dinner at the White House for some 60 guests, including a dozen or so oilmen and bankers-and not including newsmen. There followed a heavy, split-second schedule for Saud; every moment away from business he spent in side trips, e.g., a wreath for the Unknown Soldier, a tour of the U.S. Naval Academy, a basketball game...