Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Chicago, red-haired Philosopher Smith served in the state senate, later was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, was so staggered by the plethora of bills born each session that he demanded Congress "practice birth control." An intellectually humble man who called his students "my junior colleagues," he once said: "Knowledge eventuates as wisdom only in those who claim no monopoly on knowledge. Wisdom is the true lord and seldom fails of the deference that true lordship deserves...
Family & Early Years: Born May 1, 1895 in Albany, N.Y., where his father, John A. Stephens, was a law partner of New York's Governor (and U.S. Senator) David B. Hill. After grade and elementary school in Albany, entered Connecticut's Wesleyan University, transferred after his junior year to the newly organized School of Business at Columbia University (B.A., 1917). In 1918 married Mary Elizabeth Lathrop; they have two daughters, four grandchildren...
...tears muttering to himself: "I'm not an athlete . . . I'm not an athlete!" Olympic Qualifiers Vern Wilson of Santa Clara (Calif.) Y.C. and little Phil Reavis of Villanova dropped out as the bar rose. Only 19-year-old Charley Dumas (rhymes with humus) of Compton Junior Collie was left...
Actually, says Black, "trained people are needed more than money in underdeveloped countries." To supply the need, the bank currently runs a year-long course for junior-rank career officials, training them in such subjects as balance of payments, national-income accounting, project preparation, etc. Black has also set up a school for senior governmental officials. Among his students last week: Colombia's national-planning director, the financial adviser of Pakistan, the economic director for Egypt's finance ministry...
...could help the ruling Christian Democratic coalition to form governments in the more than 100 large Italian cities where no single party now has a clear-cut majority. The Christian Democrats were still spurning Nenni's aid, but Nenni thought that the Social Democrats (now one of three junior partners in the Christian Democratic coalition) might be willing to accept his tainted help. He addressed a letter to "Caro Matteo...