Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President George Washington wasted eight days coaching over nearly impassable roads from his home in Mount Vernon to the capital at Philadelphia, but 33rd President Eisenhower hardly changed his office routine, indeed barely got time to lean back and peel an orange, as he went about the Eastern Seaboard on air-age conveyances. Only a few days after he okayed purchase of three Boeing jet 707s for future Administration use on long trips, he pushed the sophisticated reciprocating engine up another notch in utility to Presidents. The helicopter, he proved last week, can be more than his traffic-jumping airport...
...raised his eyebrow (disdainfully) and inquired, "Would you be so kind as to tell me how to get to Mount Belknap...
...post of Assistant Dean of Residence and Student Affairs has been created at Radcliffe, President Jordan announced yesterday. The new asistant dean will be Miss Imogene A. Opton, a graduate of Mount Holyoke and a current candidate for an A.M. in Teaching. Miss Opton, a former member of the Olympic Ski Team, will assume her duties in the fall...
...support from all anti-Communist nations and from other regions of Indonesia. None of their calculations worked out-only North Celebes joined them in their uprising against Sukarno. Their most serious mistake was a tactical one: they had been too confident that Sukarno's creaky government could not mount so competent and quick an offensive...
...deadline for both individual and school applications is May 15, 1958. Forms can be obtained from Polish Academic Exchange, USNSA International Commission, 142 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge...