Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liked your article on Ramo-Wooldridge. In 1931 Dean Wooldridge and I had an 11 o'clock French class at the University of Oklahoma. We usually met for a game of pool between 10 and 11 o'clock. We were the world's worst players...
...implication they went far beyond U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, who recently suggested that "an appreciable proportion" of Europe's power needs could be met by better integration of hydroelectric and other conventional power sources. Europe today abounds in such schemes, including one for an interchange of electricity between Britain and France by submarine cable (Britain's peak load occurs at 8 a.m., France's at noon). Even if all these schemes were exploited to the fullest, warned the three experts, the six European nations would have to double their fuel imports within ten years, treble them...
...princess of the Swedish blood royal, he was a poor but honest piano player. They met in a London nightclub where he was a paid performer. He proposed, and she accepted. But the princess' mother forbade the marriage, and the lovers sadly parted...
Lastik also met "society women whose husbands earned quite decent salaries, but who increased their income through prostitution." His conclusion: the prevalence of prostitution is not, as Engels maintained, due solely to social misery, but quite as much to socialist "blindness and falsehood...
Many Florentines, possibly including La Pira himself, were convinced that this dramatic gesture would shock the Social Democrats into submission. But when the city council met again last week, the majority of its members proved ready and eager to find another mayor. Unfazed, La Pira pulled another card out of his sleeve: along with 24 Christian Democrats and two right-wing Liberals, he resigned from the council itself. By so doing, he hoped to make it impossible for the city government to function and thereby force new elections-elections in which he might hope to win a majority...