Word: soled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Thomas Evans Riddle, 107, one of the four surviving Confederate veterans (the sole living Union veteran: Albert Woolson, 107, of Duluth, Minn.); in Austin, Texas...
With a $23.5 million check, Multimillionaire Howard Hughes last week rid himself of a pack of vociferously unhappy stockholders, and, for all practical purposes, became the nation's only sole owner of a major motion-picture studio. The check to RKO Pictures Corp. concluded Hughes's deal to buy all RKO assets. Two obstacles to the purchase were cleared as courts in Wilmington, Del. and Las Vegas, Nev. dismissed stockholders' suits to prevent the sale on the ground that the price was too low and the company was mismanaged...
...Sweet and Brownell have run their tally of scanned subjects (including normal volunteers for comparison) to well over 200. The machine, they hope, will save many a patient from dangerous surgery inside the skull for the sole purpose of getting information and will make the operation far surer in cases where a lurking tumor is disclosed...
...most of the reasonable questions had been answered. Among the more important items: ¶The U.S. has no intention of abandoning local defenses. All around the world, the U.S. is continuing to build forces among its allies. ¶ The U.S. has not decided that air-atomic power is its sole weapon. In the new military budget are funds for the biggest Army and Navy the U.S. has ever maintained in peacetime. The U.S. is still willing to accept sound international control of atomic weapons. The U.S. does not intend to turn every little war into a general atomic...
...large majority of the Radcliffe Student Council yesterday approved a Statement on Academic Freedom which stressed "academic competence and academic responsibility as the only criteria for the hiring and continued employment of instructors," and urged that their academic peers be the sole judges of this ability...