Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troop movement in Lebanon showed the world we mean business. Europe has been weary of us for our defensive attitude in the past...
Ronnie Gates joins the list of talented juveniles that have cropped up in the past couple of years. His portrayal of Ally is remarkable; and the part is unusually long and demanding. Teena Starr is appealing as the young, lonely widow. Avril Gentles holds Sophie under control much of the time, but has a tendency to push her acting into burlesque. Donna Person and Edward Finnegan provide outstanding support...
...this gift is of especial importance for Harvard. The educational program which it will finance was approved this past May after several years of careful study by committees of the Faculty. The groups were looking for a new curriculum that would provoke increased undergraduate interest. Though this change is, of course, not felt directly in the Summer School, it is representative of a growing desire in many American universities to alter their curricula in a similar manner...
Covering the low-pressure revolt back in Beirut, an army of 200 sport-shirted newsmen found that the Lebanese rebels were accessible through a phone call from the Hotel St. Georges bar. Rebel headquarters was just a short cab ride away and any correspondent could drop past for tea with Rebel Leader Saeb Salam...
...that there are a number of possible "aids to religion which do not appreciably affect the religious or other constitutional rights of individuals." Under the First Amendment, he feels, even such aids should not be offered by the Federal Government. But he thinks that state governments, similarly limited by past court interpretations of the 14th Amendment, ought to be free to offer them whenever they choose. For instance, there is no good reason, says Howe, why states should not settle such questions as whether public schools may permit receptive students to accept the gift of Bibles. And "all the current...