Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower, who had met him through Lucius Clay. On election night 1952, as returns pouring into Manhattan's Commodore Hotel spelled victory, Dodge sat placidly spooning up yoghurt. Presently Ike cornered Dodge and made him his first appointee. Budget Director Dodge overlooked no source of potential revenue, however minor. He raised rents in Government housing and admissions to national parks, told agencies to charge for supplying copies of records. He would replace no Government car unless it had six years and 60,000 miles of service, and he never replaced his own official car. His idea...
Pierre Mendès-France, the unresting, was headed for conferences with Italian Premier Scelba and Germany's Chancellor Adenauer. It was international fence-mending week. The Italians, who had a list of 72 minor questions to settle with the French (e.g., sea-traffic regulations between Corsica and Sardinia), had offered to journey as usual to Paris, but Mendès overnight made himself something of an Italian hero by going, instead, to Rome...
...Joan Lorring as his giggling wife. Like all TV investigations of small-town U.S.A., it is suffused in the rosy, nostalgic glow more common to the Gay Nineties than the 20th century. Filmed in color by sponsor Eastman Kodak Co., Norby finds its humor in an uncritical succession of minor disasters for Hero Wayne: he gets his arm caught in the lining of his sleeve; he shakes hands with a statue instead of a friend; he promptly breaks a desk he has been warned to take good care of. The show is one more TV monument to the accepted fatheadedness...
Under the new plan, an undergraduate who earns four minor letters in two or more minor sports will be awarded a major letter in minor colors. A manager who earns three letters in minor sports, under the new system, will be given a major H, and beginning this year the Brown swimming meet will count toward a varsity letter...
Freshman intramural competition will begin again after the exam period, with the new basketball schedule. Late in February teams in hockey and basketball will be organized. A decision to relegate hockey to the status of a minor sport was made at the last meeting of the freshman intramural managers...