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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several Faculty members contacted about the scarcity of courses admitted that "things are pretty slim this spring," but the professors pointed out that the Bliss Fellows, three junior Faculty members appointed two years ago, will definitely, provide several courses in Latin American history and economics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Latin American Scholars May Take Teaching Posts | 10/17/1962 | See Source »

...Minneapolis Tribune's Minnesota poll showed Incumbent Republican Governor Elmer L. Andersen with a slim edge in his bid for a second term over Democratic-Farmer-Labor Lieutenant Governor Karl Rolvaag. After lagging well behind Rolvaag in August, Andersen now had support from 50% of the state's "most likely voters," to Rolvaag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Polls | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

Unofficial History, by Field Marshal the Viscount Slim. A leathery British general gallantly pays tribute to the grit and gusto of friends and enemies alike in these stirring memoirs of this century's great wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Oct. 5, 1962 | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...Kerr. By the time she was four, her mother had been divorced and was married to George H. Malcolm, a wealthy Otis Elevator Co. executive. Durie grew up in Chicago's suburban Lake Forest, attended Virginia's Chatham Hall, was a member of the Chicago Junior League. Slim and attractive, she was popular at parties in the early '30s at the Racquet Club, the Service Club-and as a charity-fashion-show model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An American Genealogy | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...Stock Exchange so far in September has poked along at a bit over 3,000,000 shares, dishearteningly down from the gilded days of 1961 when daily volume averaged more than 4,000.000 shares. For the brokers, whose commissions depend on the number of shares they handle, this meant slim pickings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: The Lonesome Brokers | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

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