Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slightly uncanny flashbacks. Both of the actors, Emmanuele Riva and Eiji Okada, perform excellently--she with an old woman's weariness--he with a solid diffidence which is never completely penetrated. Both as piece of cinematic fiction and as a document of the war, Hiroshima Mon Amour has outstanding merit. Every-one should see it at least once--more often if at all possible...
Able and needy students, so the story goes, are the sole beneficiaries of the nation's $100 million annual college scholarship kitty. Last week this legend got a hard bounce from John L. Holland, research "director of the National Merit Scholarship Corp., biggest dispenser of private scholarship money in the land. In College and University, Holland argues that too much money is going to conformists with little creative talent and often enough money already...
...Strom Thurmond announced that he could stomach neither the "obnoxious and punitive" platform nor Candidate Kennedy. ¶During the farewells on his departure from the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge received a cable from Rome informing him that the Knights of Maltat had awarded him their Grand Cross of Merit. A top-ranking Roman Catholic laymen's order (among the U.S. members: Joseph Patrick Kennedy, father of the Democratic presidential candidate), the Knights seldom decorate Protestants. For Episcopalian Lodge, the decoration was a rare honor indeed...
...meeting of 50 U.S. educators, foundation officials, and representatives of the U.S. and British governments. Drawing on their views, the Fund urged "a coordinated but not centralized" plan of U.S. aid from both public and private sources. It would focus on Africans "of highest promise," select students "only on merit and in open competition." The winners would be suitably financed for at least their first year in the U.S., get training specifically geared to their needs back home. As for overall supervision, concluded the Fund, "only the United States Government has the resources to finance promptly and adequately a scholarship...
...work on Saturdays." He offered Singh Sagar. a graduate in languages and literature from an Indian university, other work in the bus terminal where he could wear his turban. But Singh Sagar stubbornly insisted on being a bus conductor or nothing. "I am a man of merit," he said. "I passed their tests for the job. It would not be meritorious to take an other...