Word: six
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather goofed, but the news is good news all the same. J. Bracken Lee was six times mayor of Price, Utah [pop. 6,000] and not Salt Lake City, as reported in issue...
...Battler v. the Kid. Having no power outside the authority to allot certain star subsidies, Malraux set out to rehabilitate the French theater. At the Comédie Française, he complained, standards had fallen so low that there were only six performances of Racine to 113 of a couple of frothy farces by a 19th century playwright, Eugene Labiche. "Let us have Labiche," said Malraux tolerantly, "but not at the expense of Racine." From then on, as Paris-Presse put it, the lines were drawn between " 'Kid' Labiche v. 'Battling' Racine." Malraux snatched...
Ward Howell weeded the list down to six applicants, three of whom were interviewed by the symphony board. Last week Ward Howell's ideal org man of music was on his way to the West Coast. His name: George Adrian Kuyper, longtime manager of the Chicago Symphony, a sometime English instructor (University of Michigan), associate manager of the Boston Symphony and onetime amateur violinist. Kuyper, it turned out, was 60-ten years above the recommended...
...travelling particle receives its energy in a series of electrical "kicks," which increase its speed until it accumulates a total of six billion electron volts...
...record, the 1959 varsity football team won six games and lost three (4-3 in the Ivy League), scored 177 points to its opponents' 101, rolled up 147 first downs to its opponents' 121. This was Harvard's first winning season since 1954 and also the Crimson's first Big Three title since that year; 1959 also marked the first time Harvard has finished in the first division since the Ivy League began round-robin play three years...