Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, President Eisenhower, who does not intend to pay blackmail for American prisoners, called on the nation for patience. "We must have faith in the community of nations and in the tremendous influence of world opinion," the President proclaimed. "We must not fall into a Communist trap, and through impetuous words or deed endanger the lives of those imprisoned airmen . . . We must support the U.N. in its efforts so long as those efforts hold out any promise of success...
...Yard, there is engraved on the gate archway "Enter to Grow in Wisdom." After aweing busloads of professional sightseers with this sentiment for decades, the University has now turned its back on growth, or at least, nocturnal growth. The gate and its fellows, as you know if you intend to pass the coming mid-term examinations, are locked promptly at 8 p.m. And so, with misgivings we continue what bids to become an editorial crusade: we request once more that the gates be unlocked until midnight...
...real trouble was that miners, mindful of the "bad old days" when they went hungry for lack of work, were fearful that they might work themselves out of jobs if they dug too much coal. Said one observer: "They are their own bosses now, and intend to keep things the way they...
...Saigon last week, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem arrested a former Minister of the Interior on charges of extorting $120,000 from local Chinese businessmen. Diem scheduled a spectacular public trial, in which his prosecutors intend to show how the ex-Minister's policemen arrested wealthy Chinese and threatened to deport them "for helping the Viet Minh" unless the Chinese paid blackmail. Diem wants to use the trial to herald a big new campaign against corruption in demoralized South Viet Nam. There are faint signs that his austere new nationalism is beginning to catch an apathetic public's fancy...
...owner, who held the rest of the stock. The Observer's new publisher will be Jim Knight, executive vice president of the chain and general manager of the Miami Herald. Said new Publisher Knight in a city-room talk to the Observer's staff: "We intend to run the Observer as a completely local operation. We have a few tricks we can offer you as consultants. But you will have no absentee management...