Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children) nor the Air Force itself was going to interfere with his quest for the supreme shotput. "They acted like they felt I could work out satisfactorily from 12 midnight to 8 in the morning," he recalls with indignation. "So I wrote to Washington and got transferred over to Special Services." There Parry's job was to arrange movies at the base theater-a task only slightly more complicated than taking care of the U.S.C. shotput ring...
Last week New President Richard H. Sullivan joined 500 facultymen, alumni and townsmen at a farewell banquet to Jay special tribute to Griff. But the man to whom they were saying goodbye was not one they would soon forget. When Sullivan solemnly declared, "I shall always be grateful to him," he was speaking lot only for himself but for Reed...
...first three Manhattan schools that started chapters, 400 pupils joined up. They used small bookmobiles to take books from class to class, wrote and delivered special book reports, concocted their own book blurbs to get other children interested. The contagion spread even to the parents. Puerto Rican children brought home Spanish books for their mothers and fathers; some began teaching their parents English. Other pupils reported other results. Said one: "My mother never belonged to the public library. Now that I go so much, she has joined...
...things are regulated with almost civil-service precision, saintly works are not enough, and miracles are not required. What seems to be necessary is a sort of rapport with the time's intellectual torments, a capacity for drilling and painfully hitting some universal nerve. That, apparently, is the special gift of Simone Weil, a Frenchwoman who died in 1943 at 34 and who has since been informally canonized as a "saint of the churchless," a "patron of the undecided...
Defeated presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson has been appointed to the special top-level Democratic advisory committee to frame legislative proposals, he revealed yesterday...