Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in the wake of the big raid, top police officials met for two hours with 16 Negro civic leaders. Far from sizzling with outrage, the Negroes saw some justification for the raid; several agreed to help set up a permanent committee to advise the police on combating Negro crime. "The feeling," said one of the 16, "is more relief than criticism...
...others hurt. Dead also: the airliner's four-man crew and Scorpion Pilot Owen. Scorpion Radarman Adams parachuted out, landed badly burned and unable to contribute an explanation of the collision. Busy at his radar, he had not seen the DC-7B until an instant before the planes met...
...November Murphy got a better job in the U.S., and announced to the airline that he planned to resign. On the afternoon of Dec. 3 he met his fiancée, an airline hostess, when her plane stopped over briefly in Ciudad Trujillo. He told her that he was headed, by official request, for the presidential palace. After that, Pilot Murphy vanished...
...highly stratified Socialist bureaucracy to be an editor and organizer, reached the national executive committee the year Hitler took over. Hitler, like Bismarck before him, suppressed the party. After twelve years' exile in Czechoslovakia, France and wartime Britain, Ollenhauer was one of three surviving leaders who met to rebuild the party in 1946. He swung behind the fiery nationalist Kurt Schumacher against Otto Grotewohl's plan to merge with the Communists (Grotewohl wound up as Premier of Communist East Germany), succeeded to the top job on Schumacher's death in 1952. Schumacher, whose health was crushed...
...present organization of the student council, which embodies both class and house representation, doesn't solve the problem very successfully. Names on the candidates-at-large ballot are met with great indifference. For few are familiar enough with all the candidates in their class to vote intelligently. Election of class candidates to the Student Council is often foolishly arbitrary and depends on the appeal of the infantile blurbs published under their pictures...