Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive can be successful if everyone remembers this is a community project," Peter J. Solomon '60, co-chairman of the appeal, commented last night. Entry solicitors will appeal for funds from 10 p.m. to midnight, starting tonight and continuing through Friday, and will try to reach every student...
...until he switches out the lights in his modest two-family house at 3 a.m. (after an interlude of "reading and thinking alone"). Collects coins as a hobby, but now has little time for that or for his family-his glamorous Norwegian wife Rut and their two sons, Peter, 11, and Lars, 7. Brandt speaks Norwegian at home, is also fluent in English, made an excellent impression in the U.S. last winter...
...disciples were called Christians first in Antioch," says the New Testament (Acts 11:26); Paul and Barnabas founded the church there, and Peter is said to have been Antioch's bishop before becoming the first Bishop of Rome. Antioch (now in southernmost Turkey) was then a notable Mediterranean city of some 700,000 people, but the Moslem conquest, the Crusades and earthquakes devastated the city, and, probably in the 14th century, the patriarchs moved to Damascus...
...been used since 1913 to drive power plants. New Zealand's steam needs less treatment to free it of foreign matter and seems to be far more plentiful. Though authorities at first hesitated to schedule expensive powerhouses in the geothermal region for fear that the steam wells might peter out, nothing of the sort has happened; after eight years the oldest of the steam wells is screaming as loud as ever...
...Peter Olai) Peterson, 62, resigned as chairman and
president of Mack Trucks, Inc. after a four-year tenure in which he
more than doubled Mack's sales and successfully weathered the recession
(third-quarter sales of $66,352,321 v. $60,759,386 in 1957).
Successor: to be named by Dec. 31.