Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already this year, 19 first-year Law students, from the Class of 1961, have left the University, Topefer added. This figure is four or five higher than normal, but it does not approach last year's total of 26 by the end of January. No breakdown of undergraduate records has been given for this group...
...Indictment. State Department officials locked up the incredible evidence until they could learn the fate of the 17 U.S. Air Force men on the plane. Through normal channels, the U.S. asked the Russians for an accounting. In reply, the Soviets denied any knowledge of the plane. Later, after U.S. protests, the Reds "found" the wreckage, turned over to the U.S. six bodies (TIME, Sept. 29), stridently denied that they had shot the plane down, insisted that it had just crashed and that they had no information about the eleven airmen who were missing...
...York's LaGuardia Airport one night last week, 68 passengers stirred awake aboard American Airlines' big orange, blue and aluminum Flagship New York, dutifully obeyed the "Fasten Seat Belts" sign. The brand-new four-engine turboprop Electra had more than lived up to its billing: normal flight time from Chicago at the Electra's 400-m.p.h. cruising speed had been sliced a third. And the big aircraft had winged 713 miles eastward through almost steady rain at 21,000 ft. with barely a bump...
...news broke, schools began closing. "Mockery and disrespect for Guatemalan schoolchildren," declared a student manifesto. "Besides possessing a normal psychobiological makeup, a candidate for such a post should also have the necessary culture and education." Teachers' groups begged Ydígoras to change his mind...
...alive. I am dead," wrote Mark Twain. "I wish to keep that fact plainly before the readers. If I were alive I would be writing an autobiography on the normal plan." There was certainly nothing normal and no plan about his autobiography. He began writing it at 42 and believed that it "would live a couple of thousand years." When he died at 74, in 1910, he left about 500,000 words of notes, scraps, reminiscence and recrimination...