Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jungle-girt Vientiane last week, the U.N. subcommittee set up to investigate Communist aggression in Laos was winding up its work. This week the members of the U.N. team are expected to fly back to Manhattan to present their findings to the Security Council...
...other factors work to undermine the parents' convictions and decisions. Furthermore, indecision wrecks discipline: "The child has an amazing ability to know when the parents are unsure. But parents often have a conflict between themselves. Little success can be expected unless mother and father agree on rules and present a united front...
...doors in 1940 when Italy entered World War II, reopened in 1948 under its current (No. 10) rector, Archbishop Martin J. O'Connor of Scranton, Pa. A North American graduate ('24), Archbishop O'Connor helped raise $4,000,000 for construction of the seminary's present (dedicated in 1953) six-story, brick and travertine building atop Janiculum Hill. A far cry from the old "House on Humility Street," the new college has 307 students' rooms, a 455-seat theater, infirmary, recreation and music rooms, 130,000 sq. ft. of athletic fields, and the lavishly decorated...
...rather than competitive-an unusual circumstance in the jealously competitive TV club. Huntley, 47, is the straight man, tall (6 ft. 1 in.), saturninely handsome, serious, inclined to take a panoramic view of the news, more inclined to pundit. This comes out most in his own Sunday show, Time: Present -Chet Huntley Reporting, in which he explores predominantly heavy subjects: integration, world trade, public education. A graduate of Western broadcasting (Seattle, Los Angeles), he was brought East by NBC in 1956 to do the Sunday show, is one of TV's best-paid newsmen (total annual income...
...just in case the talk should happen to lag, as it often does, the picture also offers something beyond discussion and almost beyond belief: a romantic comedy team composed of Rock Hudson and Doris Day, the box-office champions of the 1958-59 season. The idea was obviously to present a sort of world series of sex, but what happened to the sex? When these two magnificent objects go into a clinch, aglow from the sun lamp and agleam with hair lacquer, they look less like creatures of flesh and blood than a couple of 1960 Cadillacs that just happen...