Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speaker at last week's National Press Club luncheon in Washington was introduced as an "All-American Russian." He was short, of average build, blue-eyed, grey-haired, wearing a neat and conservative suit; his air of aplomb as he looked around the crowded room was that of a subdued advertising executive. He spoke good English, and as he began to read the text of a formal speech he ad-libbed that he liked to ski, swim, play tennis; he broadened that into "good sportsmanship" and that into "good neighbors" and that into "peaceful coexistence...
After some uncertain starts, pupils quickly adjusted to a program that relies on analysis rather than memory. By stressing principles rather than technology, the program attracts girls who would shun the normal, gadgetized course, also appeals to pupils with widely varying talents. At Taunton High School, pupils have cut short their lunch hours to get in extra work, are apt to hang around the labs long after everyone but the basketball team has quit...
...week Alsop column for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, which sells it to 200 U.S. and foreign papers. He plans to write it from Washington five or six months a year and hire an assistant to write at least one capital column a week while he makes short Forays into other world news centers. The column, he cracked, will now "get all of one Alsop instead of halves...
prayer; An evening prayer, a short benediction...
Ghettos to Gin Rummy. Last week's peaceful strike tied up the industry from Massachusetts to Delaware. In all, 105,000 workers walked out of 2,286 shops. Retailers howled. Although most shops have 80% or 85% of their Easter clothes in stock, many were caught short of supply, and no one will be able to reorder if a popular line sells...