Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In what is perhaps world diplomatic history's most astonishing statistic, he traveled 559,988 miles on his mission. High in the sky, far from the minutiae of State Department administration, he could sort out basic policies, could weigh the strengths, problems and needs of the nations and leaders...
"Time is the most valuable thing in life, and I don't want to waste it," he said once. But on Nov. 2, 1956-the night after his masterful Suez speech at the U.N.-he suffered the first abdominal pains of his fateful illness. Next day Walter Reed surgeons...
In the last years of his active professorship, Bridgman taught very little--a graduate half-course once every two years--and spent most of his time in the laboratories. Thus retirement has abruptly cut him off from his usual way of life.
This year, though, the varsity didn't fare as well as its freshman counterparts. After an encouraging spring trip, on which it downed a highly-touted Hofsta squad, the varsity tailed off. The squad was winless in Ivy League competition, with a 5-8 overall record.
GENEVA, May 26--The Big Four foreign ministers agreed today to plunge into secret bargaining on Berlin and a summit meeting when they resume their conference here Friday. Then they flew off to Washington for the funeral of John Foster Dulles.