Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rash of Polish jokes ("Why won't they let a Pole swim in Lake Michigan? Because he'll leave a ring"), which began almost underground but now venture into the light. Explains Comic Phyllis Diller: "If it's too close to the truth, it isn't funny. The Poles are far removed from ignorance and dirt, so it's all right...
...second team all-Ivy swordsman, junior Steve Shea is a consistent fencer with several years of pre-Harvard epee competition in New York. Shea has taken the first spot from junior Harry Jergesen, an all-Ivy first team selection who "isn't practicing this year," according to Coach Marion...
Monro hopes to have a finished plan approved by the House Assignment Committee before Christmas. "My impression is that there isn't a great deal of disagreement," he said...
...ladylike. When the winner was finally chosen in London's Lyceum Ballroom, green-eyed Miss Malta shrieked: "The judges must be blind!" Not at all, though they did show a certain lack of foresight in picking Miss India, Bombay Medical Student Reita Faria, 23. The new Miss World isn't especially interested in the title. Collecting her $7,000 prize money, she waved away the usual lucrative year of personal-appearance and film offers, prepared to rush home instead to finish her studies, become a gynecologist and marry a Bengal tea planter...
...chairmen, followed them up with personal inspection tours. "It isn't necessary for us to carry the big cities to win statewide," said Bliss, "but let's reduce the losses...