Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue of man versus society is stated so that even the densest teen-age should be able to tell that there is more in the picture than a couple of livid love scenes and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In the first minutes of Eternity the sadistic and ambitious Captain Holmes says to Prewett, "You should know that in the Army it's not the individual that counts." The remainder of the film is devoted to a more subtle exposition of this theme, and that the only way the individual can make himself count is by preserving his integrity...
Four C.C.A.-endorsed candidates won places on the Cambridge School Committee, final results of last week's election showed. Under the PR system, candidates must reach a quota of votes to be guaranteed a place on the Committee. Mrs. Pearl Wise, a C.C.A. candidate was the first person to make the quota...
Luckily, the city has a remarkable opportunity to improve the local school situation in the candidacy of eight highly qualified people on the CCA slate. Seven of the eight are new to committee work, the exception being Mrs. Pearl K. Wise who has been on the group for the past four years. But if they are new to the School Committee as such they are not new to education. Among the seven are Judson T. Shaplin, director of Freshmen Scholarships here and former Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Education and George I. Rohrbough, also a professional educator...
...CULTURED pearl prices, already rising, are expected to go up another 20% because of a typhoon that wiped out much of Japan's growing crop. The damage is a good guarantee that the pearl industry can look forward to a sellers' market for two years...
...After Pearl Harbor, Harman joined the Air Forces, and during training volunteered to fly a then largely untried craft, the helicopter. One trouble with the helicopter was that if, at low speed, the engine failed, the pilot couldn't glide down as a plane pilot could: no one had ever lived through a forced helicopter landing. So most of Harman's early training (at the big Sikorsky plant in Bridgeport, Conn.) was spent studying theoretical techniques for forced landings...