Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual maiden handicap will be run from the foot of Tower Court hill to the Chapel. Starters affirm that the race will be held as announced no matter how many obstacles the local weather bureau decides to provide...
Some of the gentlemen on Capitol Hill are working themselves into a righteous furor this week about the Bogota rebellion. Why, demand the Congressmen, did not the Central Intelligence Agency, which is supposed to know what is going on everywhere in the world, know about the plots in Bogota? If the CIA did know what was going on, why wasn't the State Department informed in time? For the umpteenth time, the United States has been put into a foolish position for lack of proper intelligence work, and the Congressmen, as representatives of public opinion, are howling for investigations...
...Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith denied that Magidoff had ever used the diplomatic mail. McGraw-Hill said that the queries were round-robin copies sent to several of the World News bureaus. Magidoff had not answered the query about underground plants. Nevertheless, Russia's Foreign Office ordered Magidoff out of the country...
...last week, Secretary Kohonen did not show up for work. A glance at Izvestia told Magidoff why. In a long letter to the editors, she roundly denounced him as a U.S. spy. In his files, she wrote, she had found queries from McGraw-Hill, asking for information on underground factories, atomic developments and air transport. She said that the replies had gone by diplomatic pouch, to avoid the censors...
...Buck Hill Falls, Pa., 100 doctors, lawyers, businessmen, clergymen and engineers sat down to discuss professional education, after three days agreed that it left a lot to be desired. Most frequently voiced objection: the professional schools are turning out technically trained but socially irresponsible graduates ("useless or dangerous to society"). Columbia Law Professor Karl Llewellyn thought that the professional schools should not neglect the bottom 90% for the sake of the top 10%. Said he: "In the average town of 100,000, trying to find a good lawyer is as difficult as trying to find a good dentist...