Word: select
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agent, a war crimes prosecutor and, currently, a U.S. Senator, Thomas Dodd has ridden out countless investigations on the tallyho end of the chase. Last week the Connecticut Democrat was cast in the quar ry's role, his political future staked on the outcome, as the Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct delved deeply and publicly into his affairs...
...warlike. From a gentle, somewhat toothy, thin-chested little boy, he grew into a gentle, somewhat toothy, thin-chested little man, who loved nothing better than to go splashing around for specimens for his marine-biology collection. Unlike his bold and high-living grandfather, Emperor Meiji, who used to select his bed partner by dropping a silk handkerchief in front of a court concubine, Hirohito became a happy family man and refused to take a concubine, even after his Empress gave him four daughters in a row (the fifth child...
...miniature Monticello, nearly wound up empty. For the first time, the Smithsonian Institution's National Collection of Fine Arts was charged with the job of filling it. The Smithsonian, in turn, asked the British-born curator of New York's Guggenheim Museum, Lawrence Alloway, 39, to select what was finest in American...
...reported in LIFE or TIME which he has not heard about, since he did not read LIFE or TIME first! He has little time to read, less time to reflect and almost no time to re-evaluate goals. complained that lectures were not well enough organized and failed to select out major facts and major concepts. Superficially it appears that Harvard students are simultaneously asking for more independence and more "spoon feeding." Yet these two requests are perhaps not as contradictory as they first appear, and both are a reflection of our approach to education. Perhaps what they are saying...
...Masters and deans will meet to select tutors, and the process "will go on for some time," Mrs. Bunting explained. The College hopes to have several tutors chosen by the time the library opens in September...