Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strongly worded telegram sent to Governor Averell Harriman, the Committee charged that tonight's television interview would be "a slick advertising stunt" arranged by the Republican National Committee...
...found it (they like Ike), on his own behind-the-scenes prodding of some lax and lagging G.O.P. precinct-level organizations, on his belief that a presidential visit would help some edgy states, e.g., California. The same night Nixon staged a nationwide TV press conference, a bright stunt that ranged eight newsmen against him in eight U.S. cities by remote TV pickups. He distressed professional newsmen because he turned the questions into take-off points for snippets of campaign speeches, but he nonetheless put on the most vigorous and impressive national political performance of his career...
Died. Michel Detroyat, 50, flamboyant French stunt pilot who in 1932 set a record for flying upside down (26 min. 2.4 sec.), later (1936) became the first foreigner to win the UfS.'s Thompson Trophy race (at a record 264.261 m.p.h.); of a cerebral embolism; in Paris...
...chestful of medals (including Britain's Victoria Cross. France's Croix de guerre), later became an oil-firm vice president, was named honorary air marshal of Canada while recruiting flyers during World War II; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Palm Beach, Fla. Billy Bishop scorned stunt flying, grimly dived his single-seat Nieuport Scout to within 50 yards of his prey before firing a short, deadly burst from his Lewis gun. He shot down 47 planes in his first five months of battle, made a hero's tour of Britain, Canada and the U.S., returned...
Just as gratifying to St. Louis School Superintendent Philip J. Hickey was the fact that the gifted students vastly accelerated their social development (thus seeming to refute the theory that isolation of the intellectually gifted tends, to stunt their social growth). With a new batch of gifted sixth-graders starting the program this fall and last year's special sixth-graders moving on to special "seventh"-grade classes, nine new classrooms are being set aside for advanced work. Next fall a third set of nine classrooms will be added to carry the program on through the junior-high-school...