Word: marke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...composers hold a competition for the most romantic wedding march, and that each couple get a handsomely bound volume containing homilies by the country's leading Soviet intellectuals. He also wanted peace doves released at each ceremony. But of all the proposals Izvestia received, none hit the mark so squarely as one from Odessa. After complaining about the "colorless and dreary routine" of the registry offices, V. Runanov suggested that every city have "a special building-the best in town" just for marriages and other happy events. Last week, as if to make V. Runanov's dream come...
Right, slid under a cloud; its coproducer, Mark Goodson, admitted that contestants, until about a year ago, had been tipped beforehand not to bid over certain amounts (because bids over the right price are losing bids...
Needs & Wants. Not all Casbah scholars are social scientists. Recent alumni include M.I.T.'s noted Mathematician Claude Shannon and Literary Critic Mark Schorer, who worked on his biography of Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "Here I need no library," said Harvard Linguist Roman Jakobson. "If I have a question in psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, literature, I just go down a few doors and knock: 'May I come...
...mark of an educated woman is her use of leisure. Reading a book of the month or seeing the latest play aren't enough. Educated women must have definite views and standards. They must know the good from the bad, and be able to say why. A woman must not only know facts-she must have ideas about them. There is a definite need for intellectuals in this country today. The modern world needs more people-including girls-who think for themselves." All down the line, urged Sister Margaret, education for U.S. women should be stiffened. More women should...
Despite erratic protection, Meredith has passed for seven of S.M.U.'s 13 touchdowns this year. As a sophomore, he set the alltime completion record for major colleges with a startling 69.6%, at his present clip will finish this season with a three-year mark of 63% to break the record of 62% set last year by Utah's Lee Grosscup (now a scrub-practice quarterback for the New York Giants). "Meredith's uncanny the way he throws," marvels one impressed opponent. "I think he has radar in his receiver's helmets...