Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cause of grave concern." When Secretary of State Herter, arriving in Paris, opened a courtesy call on French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville with the remark that "I have come to speak to you about this week's events," Couve put on the chill act: "I prefer myself to talk about last week and those events that have rather deteriorated relations between France...
...pageant of President Eisenhower's official tour, one American woman had a spotlight all to herself. The only trouble was that Barbara Thompson Eisenhower, 33, is the kind of woman who would much prefer to avoid the spotlight. But as wife of Major John Eisenhower, daughter-in-law of the President, and (in Mamie's absence) a kind of unofficial U.S. First Lady on the trip, Barbara Eisenhower began to relax last week and have a happy time...
...years ago a parliamentary select committee complained of the "bad ventilation" of these cubicles, and last week Minister of Works Lord John Hope solemnly noted that one recommendation this committee made was to have the doors of four of the cubicles removed. Though reform went through, most Members still prefer to do their dictating in an airier place-on a bench in the House of Commons lobby...
...Trap, Inspector Maigret is a slick story of a manhunt. It opens, naturally enough, with a magnificent murder. The "Mairais Killer," so named because he does his business in the Marais quarter of Paris, has made a habit of stabbing young women. The killer challenges Inspector Maigret, who would prefer to go fishing, takes on the case...
Results of a student opinion poll taken last week show that 260 of 422 students polled prefer to have the Field House used as a coffee shop. A stronghold of opposition to the change has been Holmes Hall, located across from the Field House, where students fear the noise such a center would produce...