Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through it all, Philanthropist French has never seen the fruits of his dollars. But this week he leaves for a 100-day trip to India, where another of his mobile health units will be donated-and early next year he plans to go to visit Korea. Says he: "It's amazing how little it costs you to be generous. I don't believe the American people have any idea of how far $10 can go in a foreign country...
...Palace, Charles de Gaulle took a seat in solitary grandeur upon an orchestra platform, signaled the beginning of the first press conference ever given by a French President. In the hour that followed, the 600 newsmen present witnessed the closest thing to a royal audience that France has seen since the days of Napoleon III. While the Cabinet of the Fifth Republic sat in dutiful silence at the foot of his dais, De Gaulle announced that he himself would speak for France at the prospective summit meeting-though, naturally, "with Premier Michel Debré at my side." With the disdain...
...prices had since risen only 4%. "Now," said De Gaulle proudly, "we can meet any form of public expenditure without inflation. It is 20 years since that has happened. The value of our currency is uncontested in the world. A Frenchman of 40 has never before seen that...
...Superficial Scholars. Any student who has gone through the high-school and college round of intelligence, aptitude and achievement tests has seen exam sections just as ambiguous. In an unpublished sequel to his American Scholar article, Hoffmann analyzes eleven more College Board sample questions-5% of the total in two booklets-and is able to show that they are, at least, highly arguable. Probably no brilliant student will be denied college entrance because he analyzes such questions too keenly, because passing scores are relatively low. But screening in the early stages of the National Merit Scholarship competitions is highly selective...
Damned Strange. Hodgson settled in Minerva for no particular reason: "The birds seemed just as interesting as in England, and I'd never seen a hummingbird. It took my mind." As for the town, six miles from his house, no more than a score of people have set eyes on Hodgson over the years. His only real contact with the world is his mid-fiftyish, cheerful, Ohio-born wife Aurelia, who works as a clerk in the local wax-paper factory. Hodgson did not even come to town some years ago when he had the local newspaper editor privately...