Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dodge's next call to do some budget doctoring came from Dwight Eisenhower, who had met him through Lucius Clay. On election night 1952, as returns pouring into Manhattan's Commodore Hotel spelled victory, Dodge sat placidly spooning up yoghurt. Presently Ike cornered Dodge and made him his first appointee. Budget Director Dodge overlooked no source of potential revenue, however minor. He raised rents in Government housing and admissions to national parks, told agencies to charge for supplying copies of records. He would replace no Government car unless it had six years and 60,000 miles of service...
...slim black Citroën sped along the road that winds north from Naples, across the Pontine Marshes and on to Rome. In it sat the Premier of France, encased in a dark grey overcoat; at his side was his wife Lily, with whom he had just spent a needed but rainswept four-day holiday in the village of Positano...
Mendès' quizzical features, the details of his every meal, blazed from the Rome front pages; his pretty wife was acclaimed as "gentilissima." But when Mendès sat down to talk over his European Arms Pool with Premier Scelba, he was less successful. His plan, he said, would make European arms production cheaper and more efficient by enabling each member of WEU to concentrate on those items it is best fitted to produce (The Netherlands, electronics; Britain, jet engines; Germany, explosives; France, fuselages). The Italians were polite but noncommittal...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Masked Ball, with Peters, Milanov, Tucker...
...early years when Cambridge residents and a good many members of the Harvard Faculty regarded a woman graduate student as a cloistered oddity, there was good reason for Radcliffe to have a graduate school. With Radcliffe undergraduates carefully segregated in their own buildings, the few female graduate students who sat in on Harvard courses would have been lost in the administrative shuffle of a graduate school oriented to male education. But when war-time Conant austerity placed a woman in every class, co- education had arrived in practice, if not in theory, and the fears of the misanthropes reluctantly disappeared...