Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Scholars have given St. John's symbols of strife and destruction various names, though the sixth chapter of Revelations, through which they ride, names only one-Death ("and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him''). The current issue of Saturday Review presents a new theory by an old student. His name: Herbert Hoover...
Like any other new boy at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., dark-eyed, curly-haired Abdallah Lakfal, going on 14, bounced with excitement last week as the school year got under way. A sixth-former helped him settle in his dorm, showed him the chapel and local stores, escorted him to the gym, where he drew athletic equipment. Then "Abdie" took a series of physical examinations, visited the library, met his teachers and headmaster, the Rev. Matthew Warren, received his first homework assignment. But for the little boy from Casablanca it also meant something special: the start...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28--Ted Williams wrapped up his sixth American League batting championship with a closing day flurry--a double and homer in four trips--while his Boston teammate and rival Pete Runnels went hitless in four chances...
...listened to miles of music already on tape, added taped material of his own and edited the best into comprehensible form. Columbia so far has issued 16 remarkable annotated albums (covering almost as many areas) in a projected 30-to 40-album series, and Westminster this month releases the sixth of a scheduled eleven albums of Lomax material from Spain alone...
...sixth and final time, Mexico's outgoing President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines draped the red, white and green sash of office across his shirt front, climbed aboard the ceremonial Packard and drove past cheering thousands to the Chamber of Deputies. Across the nation Mexicans gathered around television sets, radios, and street-corner loudspeakers for the last state of the nation address from a man whose honest, middle-reading administration had served the country well. "In each chapter," said Ruiz Cortines proudly, "the country will find a resume of what the Mexican people have accomplished since...