Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-school days in Budapest, Teller was, as he puts it today, a "square" (pronounced, in his thick accent, "skvare"). Favorite amusements were chess, hiking, poetry and music. Among the subjects of his poems was a chum's brainy, grey-eyed younger sister, Mici (pronounced Mitzi), who shared young Teller's enthusiasm for mathematics and that special Hungarian passion, pingpong. Eventually they were married...
This new schedule will give the varsity "the same gate experience as our sister opponents," Bolles explained. Harvard is presently the only Ivy League school which does not play a nine-game schedule...
...Cora, argues with him about all the traditional things; their first act fight and third act reconciliation frame the play. They have an engaging son, Sonny, who hates people and collects pictures of movie stars, and a teen-age daughter, Reenie, who is afraid to be social. Cora's sister, Lottie, and Lottie's husband turn out to be rather joyless, too, under her veneer of exhilaration and his of complacency. By the end of the play, at least the first four characters have gone through some form of crisis and emerge somewhat better prepared for the future...
There was only one child in the Kamakovsky family, a little boy of eight, named Dusko. Unlike most Experimenters, therefore, Lorenz did not have a foreign "brother" or "sister" close...
...contrast with its staid morning sister, the 76-year-old Los Angeles Times (circ. 462,257), Norman Chandler's eight-year-old Los Angeles Mirror-News (308,594) is liberal Republican in outlook, breezy in style-and heavily in the red. Last week Chandler announced the "resignation" of the Mirror-News's independent-minded Editor-Publisher Virgil Pinkley, 50, onetime vice president and European manager of the United Press. Pinkley's successor: Hugh A. ("Bud") Lewis, longtime city editor of the Times. His probable first step: to attune the Mirror-News's editorial policy more closely...