Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mintoff and his compatriots are unpredictable folk. Just how unpredictable the British learned last week when Mintoff rose in the paneled chamber of Malta's Legislative Assembly and proposed a resolution that "representatives of the Maltese people in Parliament declare that they are no longer bound by agreements and obligations toward the British government..." The resolution, seemingly a declaration of intent to secede from the British Empire, was passed unanimously...
Since 1951, the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare reported last week, enrollment in 1,890 colleges and universities rose 45% to a record of 3,068,000. The Big Ten of 1957: University of California, with 41,598 students; University of Minnesota. 35,852; New York University, 31,068; State University of New York (see below), 29,787 students, not counting those at the agricultural and technical institutes; City College of the City of New York. 29,883; Columbia University, 26,787; University of Michigan. 26,370; University of Illinois. 25,920; University of Wisconsin, 24,873; Ohio...
...After that, the cup slid swiftly out of reach. Cooper pinned Seixas to the base line and whipped the U.S. veteran in a match that went the unimpressively full five sets. Next day, in the doubles, Hopman took Mervyn Rose, 27, out of the Davis Cup doghouse, where he has lingered ever since losing two singles matches in 1951, teamed him with Anderson and clinched the cup with an easy, three-set victory over Seixas and MacKay...
...subsidies. "If we do," said Lefaucheux, "the politicians will be telling us how to make door handles." Instead, he floated bond issues on the private market, got loans from U.S. and Swiss banks, used Marshall Plan money to buy machine tools and presses in the U.S. From the rubble rose some of the most highly automated factories in Europe. Renault also became a model of enlightened management. It put in a profit-sharing plan, and was the first French company to give all workers a paid three-week vacation. In 1955 Renault routed the Communists for good by signing...
Twelve Angry Men. The necessary right and the possible wrong of trial by jury, skillfully argued by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose and Actor Henry Fonda (TIME. April...