Word: roland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROLAND MOUMIÉ President of the UPC New York City
Died. Dorothy Leigh Sayers Fleming, 64, erudite, cherub-faced whoduniteer (The Nine Tailors), translator (Chanson de Roland), playwright (The Devil to Pay), rapier-witted Anglican writer on theology (Creed or Chaos?); of a coronary thrombosis; in Witham, England. One of Oxford's first women graduates (Somerville College, 1915), Dorothy Sayers gained fame and fortune with her deft mysteries, wrote religious dramas for the Church of England's Canterbury Festival, worked since 1947 on her magnum opus, Dante's Divine Comedy in a vivid, homiletic translation, completed two canticles (Inferno, 1949; Purgatorio, 1955) before her death...
...Hello, Congressman!" boomed a hanger-on as pudgy, pop-eyed Chicago Politico Roland V. Libonati strolled into his office...
...Typical of the exhausted indifference which the prolonged crisis had brought was the appointment of Agriculture Minister Roland Boscary-Monsservin. Newspaper reporters, tired of waiting for Gaillard and the politicians to reach agreement on the post, decided Boscary-Monsservin would do, telephoned him at 11:35 p.m. and said Gaillard wanted to see him. Boscary-Monsservin scurried over to the Palais du Louvre, and Gaillard ended the argument by appointing...
Mars Chamber. Last week Dr. Strughold reported at Flagstaff that this experiment has been performed successfully by Dr. Roland B. Mitchell and Lieut. John A. Kooistra Jr. of the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. They collected soil samples from the high slopes of Mt. McKinley, the Painted Desert and the Grand Canyon, where the climate in some respects is almost as tough as on Mars. They put the samples in jars and replaced the oxygen-rich earthly air with dry nitrogen. They lowered the moisture content to below 1% and reduced the pressure to 1.2 Ibs. per square inch...