Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Coon Rapids, Stevenson's trail led to Wisconsin, where he had agreed to speak to the nonpolitical Madison Chapter of the Civil War Round Table. Once more he walked confidently into the political limelight. Without much coaxing he agreed to attend a press conference and a meeting of the Dane County Democratic Club. When Stevenson strode into the Democratic meeting in the Park Hotel, Club President Elizabeth Tarkow shouted, "Let's really give him a welcome!" The place went wild. Old Stevenson buttons magically appeared, the old nostalgia flowed, and tears brimmed in Adlai's eyes...
...York City to Mexico City and foreign residence as board chairman of Mexican Light & Power Co. Ltd., a Canada-incorporated utility that supplies about a third of Mexico's electric power. Same day, another Army notable, 2nd Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 21, West Point's most acclaimed all-round cadet (first captain of cadets, '58 football captain, '59 class president, "Star" man in scholarship) since Douglas MacArthur, headed for two-year expatriation in England, where as a Rhodes scholar he will study at Oxford...
...state officials financed a multimillion-dollar series of exhibition halls in the city's suburbs, organized a biennial show of international art designed to rival Venice's. Last week Sâo Paulo opened its fifth Bienal, with more than 4,000 creations by 1,200 artists from 46 nations round the world...
...foes of rapid integration won a round in Arkansas last week. Taking its cue from a U.S. Supreme Court decision, which upheld the constitutionality of Alabama's pupil-placement law last winter, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled that a similar law in Arkansas is legal. Under the law, Arkansas school boards have full authority to assign students on the basis of qualifications not essentially concerned with race...
...compact and regular sizes. All told, Detroit is betting $700 million on these cars-about $150 million on the Corvair, $100 million each for Falcon and Valiant, $350 million for the "bigger" compacts. How well this huge gamble pays off will affect not only Detroit, but automakers and buyers round the world. Says West Germany's Heinz Nordhoff, president of Volkswagen, with some understatement: "1960 will be the most interesting year in the history of the U.S. automobile industry...