Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ferrari seems to be in a position to challenge the new Maserati. But even the finest racing machine in the world would be nothing without the finest drivers. Maserati, fortunately, has the two best men in the business: Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio and England's Stirling Moss. At 46, Fangio, who got his start as a Buenos Aires bus driver, is a four-time world champion. Under the benevolent sponsorship of Dictator Juan Peron he parlayed his home-town popularity into a wealthy G.M. distributorship in Buenos Aires. He has continued to do well as a driver...
...Committee Chairman Barden, 60, had moss on his back, there was none over his eyes. Last week he opened the two-hour organizational meeting by sagely announcing that "we need some new rules," proceeded to introduce eleven of his own, patently copied from the widely circulated Udall proposals. Though the chairman kept the privilege of appointing subcommittee chairmen and hiring and firing Democratic staff employees, he retained no other power, even agreed to demands that the committee have equal voice in deciding when additional subcommittees be appointed. Strolling out of the committee room at meeting's end. black-haired...
...only an arm stretched out, an outstretched arm that bids me go close, and closer yet to the bracelet that the moss-bearded bridge slips over your wrist...
...Class reports on a Harvard graduate traditionally list not only his achievements but his prejudices, cants, and religious eccentricities. Typical of these illuminating self-portraits is the periodic alumni record of Alexander Moss White '25, the New York investment banker and museum executive who was recently appointed to head the University's three-year fund drive. The image, as one friend pointed out, "is just what you would expect of a man who is entrusted with raising a hundred million dollars...
...report was released, the House subcommittee on Government Operations, headed by California's Democratic Representative John E. Moss, opened new hearings in its investigation of Government information policies. Moss denounced the grand jury proposal as "shocking." Then his committee disclosed one reason why the Pentagon and reporters wrangled so much; none of the topmost information officers in the Army, Navy or Air Force had any previous experience in public-information jobs outside the Pentagon...