Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GUINEA AND TOGO Volunteers will sent program of math and science in secondary schools in the Note: This is a senior year open to college juniors only...
...senator from Minnesota, had given the idea an early boost by submitting a Peace Corps bill in the summer of 1960. But it was not until a speech in San Francisco during the waning days of the presidential campaign -- November 2, 1960 -- that John F. Kennedy sounded the note that reverberated through the American mind...
...senior's fine shooting was the only exciting note of an otherwise mundane contest. Harvard was ahead, 30 to 22, with 4:40 left in the first half; then Sedlacek hit a jumper from the circle, Bob Beller connected from the corner, and Jeff Grate sank a pair of foul shots, making the score 36-23. In the last two minutes of the half, Sedlacek hit three straight baskets which blew the game wide, giving the Crimson a 42-25 halftime lead...
...toddler, he would eavesdrop on his sisters' piano lessons, and by the time he was three he was "a terrible little fiend" about music, screaming when his sisters struck a sour note, banging the piano lid down on their fingers. At four, he was performing at charity concerts, pressing his engraved calling cards on everyone he met: ARTUR THE GREAT PIANO VIRTUOSO. It annoyed him even then that people always asked if he was any kin to the great Anton Rubinstein, and so he took to prancing around town with the words NO RELATION inscribed on the front...
...last day, General Motors remained Sloan's primary interest. As its honorary chairman, he scrupulously attended all board meetings. Troubled by deafness in his later years, he took to conducting conversations by note writing. Not long ago, a journalist scribbled out a question: What is the U.S. stock with the most promising growth prospect? Without hesitation, Sloan answered: "General Motors...