Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This done, the council got down to cases on the matter of self-policing. With Dave Beck absent (explained Beck's aides: Mrs. Beck was ill, and Dave decided to take her out for a drive), it unanimously adopted a tough ethical-practices code. Highlights...
...Britain Nehru has long occupied an exalted position in the political mythology. Tory governments looked to him for "expert" advice on Asian affairs, and told the U.S. that its Asian policy was ill advised for ignoring Nehru, Asia's only true spokesman. Left-wingers saw in Nehrunian "noncommitment" an idealistic answer to U.S. massive retaliation. British opinion began to change when Nehru's U.N. delegates regarded a discussion of Hungary as an unworthy diversion from the serious business of condemning the Suez invasion...
Although not widely read, the country doctor had a consuming curiosity and a determination that his sons should have every opportunity for education. When Mark, the fourth-born, was six, Dr. Van Doren quit his practice at Hope, Ill., packed off his brood to Urbana 25 miles away so the boys could study in good elementary schools and be handy to the University of Illinois. "Everything interested him," says Mark of his father. "Nothing was unimportant. He had no patience with error. Since this TV business started, I got a letter from a distant cousin who said he closed...
...Doren, 69, is now a semi-retired consulting architect in Clinton, Mich., runs a prosperous antique business on the side. Paul Van Doren, the youngest, 57, is an investment banker in New York City. Frank Van Doren, 65, is a retired farmer and agriculture expert in Tuscola, Ill...
...first cardinal in Tokyo's Archbishop Peter Tatsuo Doi. Though his archdiocese is not large (26,586 Catholics in a population of 10 million), Archbishop Tatsuo Doi has a strong claim in the fact that Peking has a cardinal, Thomas Tien, now in exile at Techny, Ill. (Cardinal Tien came to the U.S. in 1951 for treatment of a heart ailment, and this was felt by some Vatican critics to have broken the tradition that a prince of the church must remain at his post in time of danger...