Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...university participates in intercollegiate athletics. "It is interesting to note that at Moscow, the best university in the Soviet Union, as at Harvard, the best university in the United States, the athletic teams almost always lose," Azrael says...
Birth Pangs. In Hartford, Conn., D. A. McGann sent $5 to the police for a parking ticket with an explanatory note: "It was a girl. Delivery costs $5 more than anticipated," got an answer: "Congratulations, but no refund...
Thus the Camp David conference ended on a friendly note. Eisenhower and Khrushchev delayed their departure for an hour and a half so that they could have lunch, rode the 60 miles back to Washington in a helicopter together while their aides got out the communique the world waited...
...trip's end, even the suggestive threat had a mellow note. In some strange way-some way that had nothing to do with issues of substance or policy-Nikita Khrushchev and the U.S. had come to a grudging mutual acknowledgment that each party was standing firmly on his own two feet, and not likely to be easily shaken in basic underpinnings...
Both Ashmore and Gazette Publisher John N. ("Ned") Heiskell made it clear that the departure was no retreat. "I'm a vindicated prophet without the grace to die," said Ashmore, taking note of this fall's token integration in Little Rock high schools. Said Heiskell: "His decision to accept the position actually was delayed on his own motion for more than a year because of the school situation here." Long associated with Fund for Republic programs, Ashmore in his new job will join a group of scholars and experts, e.g., former Assistant Secretary of State A. A. Berle...