Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southern witnesses denounced President Eisenhower's civil rights program yesterday as containing the seed of a "Soviet type gestapo." Critics from Georgia and Alabama opened such a broadside before a House Judiciary subcommittee that Northern members protested against what they called "inflammatory" statements...
...involved d'Entreves deeply, and towards its end the professor engaged in resistance activities in his native province of Vald-Aoste in Northern Italy. Working with British, U.S., French and Italian associates, d'Entreves cultivated the international outlook and understanding that is so much a part of him today. After the War he returned to Oxford to assume the Chair of Italian Studies, which he has filled ever since...
Tall, silver-haired, with electric-blue eyes, d'Entreves finds relaxation in rambling through the Northern Italian Alps near his birthplace. Aside from climbing, he is an avid collector of classical records and has a deep interest in and love of music. Although he has not taught political theory for several years, d'Entreves feels totally at home in the subject, and is glad to return...
...later, however, when the sky cleared, a Piper Cub, filled with blankets, food and medicine, took off from the French air-force base at Le Fayet, 20 kilometers down the valley. With an Alpine guide aboard to plot the route, the little plane spotted the climbers on a treacherous northern slope close to the edge of a snow cliff that threatened to break away at any minute. The pilot could not get close enough to drop his supplies. The expedition made another try by helicopter. It was impossible to land the big machine, but the guide dropped his rescue packages...
...talking supersalesman, and Donald R. McLennan, a careful technician who knew how to make salesmanship pay off, soon changed all that. M. & M. advised the Moore Brothers' Diamond Match Co. and National Biscuit Co. empire, won the insurance account for what later became U.S. Steel, convinced the Great Northern Railway that it should place its first comprehensive insurance schedule covering all the road's operations. Going into marine insurance, it helped change the entire meaning of the term to cover virtually any cargo that was moved and stored, whether by land or sea. And for every customer...