Word: selection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election date itself kicked up the hottest squabble; it was too soon for some, too late for others. Aramburu announced that an Assembly will be chosen July 28 to write a new constitution. Then next Feb. 23, voters will go to the polls and select a new President...
...Program for Harvard College announced yesterday that it has already collected $8,845,000 from a select group of alumni...
Whitlock indicated that the "chief functions of the scholarship are to provide a worthy student with an opportunity for foreign study who otherwise would not have the chance, and to strengthen the tutorial set-up within the House." A committee composed entirely of Dudley tutors will select the winner of the stipend...
From Manhattan's studiously select swankery, the Stork Club, came notice that hefty (circa 260 Ibs.), raffish TV Comic Jackie Gleason had been tossed out on his leer. With him went his blonde companion of the evening. Complained the Stork's Boss Sherman Billingsley: "He was drunk and rowdy, and the girl was even drunker. We don't welcome that caliber of person as a patron." Wailed Gleason: "I thought it was a joke...
...space conditions have been carefully investigated, mostly by Air Force physicians. Other scientists have tried to predict how much damage will be done to spaceborne objects by solar X rays and ultraviolet rays, and by micrometeorites. Still others have worked on instruments for space navigation, on how to select space crews, how to train them and how to keep them alive with the least possible amount of food and oxygen...