Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hunkering as practiced by the University of Arkansas students [Nov. 9] brought memories of childhood days in Yorkshire, England, just before the turn of the century. Hunkering was the usual posture of the miners employed in a nearby colliery when, on a summer evening, they gathered in a ring to talk local politics or discuss the merits of their respective whippets...
Something Added. In accordance with U.S. policy of auctioning off instead of carting away unwanted supplies, the Air Force last summer sold 40 tons of surplus airplane lubricating oil to a Casablanca dealer. The dealer then sold the oil to 25 cooking-oil merchants of Meknes, Fez and Casablanca, who posed as garage owners. The merchants mixed the bargain-price lubricating oil with olive oil in a 1-to-4 ratio that enabled them to boost by 75% their profit on the cheap cooking oil that the poorest Moroccan families use. Ready to cheat, if not perhaps intending what happened...
Increasingly seen as a front woman for Britain's royal family, pretty Princess Alexandra, 22, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth, who went out barefooted and in slacks in Australia last summer (TIME, Sept. 14) was far more formal last week when she attended a Brazilian Chamber of Commerce banquet in London...
...years the Los Angeles Philharmonic has played concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, but has also competed with the Hollywood Bowl Association for guest conductors and soloists. Last summer both organizations made a move highly unusual in the music world, turned for advice to McKinsey & Co., a Manhattan firm of management consultants. McKinsey advised that what the two outfits needed was a joint director, added the even more radical suggestion that they consult an executive recruiting firm...
Serving as a visiting professor is no new chore to Duroselle: besides the U.S., he has taught in Germany and Italy as well as his native France. In the summer of 1958 he was a visiting professor at Brandeis, and it was then that he was asked to come to Cambridge as a Fall Term replacement for William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History...