Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could match the coverage of the Times. Routed out of bed shortly after midnight, Managing Editor Turner Catledge ran the show himself from his office in the corner of the city room. At first Catledge thought that all he needed was a small box, but as the plight of the Andrea Doria grew more desperate, he put all 15 men of his night staff to work, splashed on an eight-column, three-line, 48-point headline, second only to the 60-point head the conservative Times reserves for "declarations of war." As stories poured in from the foreign desk...
...teacher did not congratulate him: she told him he was "wrong" and sent him back to his seat. To Mathematician David Page, 31, of the University of Illinois' College of Education, this was just one more example of why high-school math is in the plight it is. "Mathematics," says he, "is normally regarded by teachers as a subject with cut and dried rules of procedure. The theory is that the teacher simply passes on the rules, and the kids absorb them without question." The result: math has become the subject most likely to be shunned by today...
Died. Dr. Gerrit J. Van Heuven Goedhart, 55, tall, intense U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees since 1950, whose office won the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize for its thankless task of finding "permanent solutions" to the plight of some 350,000 anti-Communist refugees in Europe and Asia; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in Geneva, Switzerland. Prewar editor (1929-33) of the big Amsterdam Telegraaf, bald, brilliant Dr. Goedhart became a top-ranking resistance leader, later (1944) moved to London as Minister of Justice in the Dutch government in exile. Lately embittered by apparent indifference to the plight...
...plight of 14 bachelor grad students living in William James Hall this summer is indeed a sad one. An overflow of summer school males into the graduate dormitories has brought about a policy of "a few must suffer for the sins of many." In this case the sin is merely one of overcrowding, but the grad students in question are still suffering...
...Whitfield, a gold-medal winner at Helsinki and London, punished his aching body to the limit and sped past the 800-meter finish only a tenth of a second slower than his Olympic record of 1952. But he could not win. He was fifth. Whitfield's plight was typical of last week's two-day Olympic trials at Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum...