Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only head the university's present eight campuses, but will supervise the building of two more, which the regents approved last week. He will have to make provisions for an expected enrollment of 90,000 by 1970. But more important to his scattered facultymen is the kind of person Clark Kerr is−a constant critic of the Organization Man, of the cult of "factory sociology," of all those who would place security and serenity above free enterprise, whether economic or academic. "Freedom," he once wrote, "has some costs, it is true, but in our eagerness to eliminate these...
...said Constantine had placed St. Peter's relics. All that remained, buried at the rear of the grave niche, were a few bones. The Vatican has said only that they are human, that there is no skull among them, and that they are those of a powerfully built person of advanced age but undetermined sex. With this intriguing information −pending further Vatican disclosures about the bones or about additional excavation −the account ends. Archaeologists Toynbee and Perkins conclude only that "at least since the 2nd century, the belief [that St. Peter's bones...
CANDY CRAZE is biting into the diet craze, to the relief of candy makers. After candy-eating dropped to 16.5 lbs. per person in 1954, sudden upsurge this year will push consumption to near-record...
Last year Conway took a leave of absence to work at the Institute of Historical Research in London. He lived with a Polish family, the Starzewskis, and belonged to several London clubs. Starzewski, the Foreign Minister of the Polish government-in-exile, was "a warm and friendly person, but he and his family lived in a vanished world," Conway says...
...with his dinner, and fiddles with a few wires. Daddy and Mummy also play a game called "Cigar Hunt," which Mummy generally wins with the magic words. "All right . . . hand it over!" For Mummy's sake Benjy is anxious to straighten out poor Daddy. Speaking in the third person, as he sometimes does, Benjy promises that when he goes to school, "he's going to study hard, hard ... so he'll get two diplomas. Then he can give one to Daddy...