Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they learned how to ski, tend cows, or run a blacksmith's shop. There were no rigid schedules of weekly exams, no report cards-not even football teams. After hours, students were urged to strike out on their own projects, e.g., sonnet-writing, musical composition, working with wrought iron. Nor were the sexes kept apart. Said one recent alumnus: "There is no 'problem.' After you've worked all afternoon around the stable with a girl, the Hollywood romance gets taken...
Last week, her once-blonde hair a crisp iron grey, Carmelita Hinton. 64, briskly announced that she would step down as head of Putney July 1. She added: "I hate to leave, but I have so many things before me that I'm boiling over." Founder Hinton's successor: Admissions Director Henry Benson Rockwell, a personable Princetonian ('37) who came to Putney from Connecticut's Pomfret School three years...
...Pierson, head of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce: "We should go slow in preaching the value of free enterprise and of competition abroad while we erect unreasonably barriers to competition with our own markets. We should not insist that friendly nations shut off trade with Iron Curtain countries unless we are will ing to assist them in finding alternate markets...
Dancers & Wrestlers. The Iron Curtain has also been raised a perceptible inch, and foreign diplomats can move deeper into the countryside. Newsmen are still largely unwelcome, but other delegations are streaming in by the hundreds. They include Greek dancers, Swiss doctors, Italian film makers, British agronomists, Indian economists, Danish exporters, Israeli women, Egyptian wrestlers. Delegations from India, Ceylon, Indonesia and Burma (headed by the Agriculture Minister himself) wandered admiringly through Moscow's huge agricultural exhibition...
...Communist world, where scuffles are generally muffled, has there been such an open, knock-down fight as in Hungary last week. It began 15 months ago when Hungary's Communist bosses admitted that they had overplanned, overcentralized and overcontrolled Hungary into chaos. They had blindly produced a big iron and steel industry but few consumer goods; they had made a statistical success of forced collectivization but the result was a fall in production and a shortage of food. The traditional granary of central Europe was on short rations and forced to import grain. Workers grumbled over low wages...