Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assurances, in writing and publicly pronounced, that Washington and London would work to guarantee Israel's borders, and would come to Israel's aid if it was attacked. At week's end Israel's Milwaukee-raised Foreign Minister Golda Meir was invited to London on short notice. She had just held "satisfactory" talks with the French in Paris, where the De Gaulle government promised stepped-up arms shipments (Israel and France have been buddies against Nasser since Suez). From the British, about whom Israelis feel less sure, Minister Meir wanted a briefing on their intentions...
...other evils of the first act were also technical, and secondarily dramatic. Shaw's Pygmalion contains five short and concise acts. This structure was deemed inconvenient by the Wellesley group, and so the play was aborted into one long act and two short ones. The effect of this was to drag out the woe-filled first act to the point of boredom. The Players tried to make up for this in a superbly done second act, and thought to leave the audience with a good going-home impression with the third. A favorable word should be added, though...
...year to establish courses in foreign languages not ordinarily taught in the U.S., and short-term institutes for the study of language-teaching methods, with stipends for students who attend...
...spring, each senior girl in each high school in Portland, Ore. parades across a stage at her school, as prettily as she is able. A judging committee of six to ten teachers and an equal number of students pick the twelve prettiest. Each girl gives a short speech, and the list of quarter-finalists is narrowed. Then, amid plentiful uproar at assemblies timed to newspaper-edition deadlines, the prettiest teen-ager at each high school in Portland is named Princess of the Rose Festival, a civic promotion of considerable local sanctity...
...other 25 planes just ordered will be smaller, lighter versions of Boeing's transcontinental 707. They will cruise at 601 m.p.h., have a range of 1,850 miles, go into service in 1960. Previously ordered by American: 25 long-haul Boeing 707s, 35 short-to-medium-range Lockheed Electra turboprops...