Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference agenda provides for reading of short, original papers by some of the conference members, as well as for lectures and discussions...
...Senate's victory, planned by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had even won over some Southern defectors (although not such diehards as Virginia's Harry Byrd, Mississippi's Jim Eastland, Arkansas' John McClellan and J. William Fulbright). House opposition was so weak, in short, that only a few recalcitrant Southerners took the trouble to harangue for the sake of the record. Swiftly the vote came to the floor-a rousing 323-89-and swiftly the word sped to the two Hawaiian officials holding the phones...
...Short Cut. On petition from the White House staff, the President approved plans for renovation of the long-abandoned White House clay tennis court, which will be maintained by surplus funds out of the White House mess. One restriction, laid down by Mamie Eisenhower: Players wearing shorts may not parade across the public lawn from the West Wing to the court, instead must use the nearby tool shed for a dressing room...
...Secretary of Defense Donald Quarles and his scientific assistants made it clear that the prime purpose of the experiments, which threw a thin curtain of radation around the earth for short periods, produced results that will be used in perfecting the radar systems needed to put an anti-missile missile on course...
...Durfee. The Crimson gained possession of the Arvanites Trophy by downing inexperienced sabre squads from Brandeis, B.U., and M.I.T. The trophy, offered for the first time this year, goes annually to the best sabre team in the Boston area, and the varsity should be able to retire it in short order...