Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whether Under Secretary Christian Herter would succeed Dulles, the President, patently still shaken by the news from Washington, said confusingly that "no final decision" had been made, that "there are a number of people . . . who have particular talent in this field, and there are all kinds of considerations to be studied...
Communist Mora came home from Havana. Denouncing Figueres as "a servant of Yankee imperialism," Mora praised Castro as a "man of profound culture and conspicuous talent, a true revolutionary." In Venezuela, President Betancourt's Acción Democrática party pointedly issued a statement praising Figueres...
...creating a public image of itself as a leader in science education and research. If Harvard were only to present the "true" picture of itself to prospective applicants, this argument runs, increased knowledge that Harvard is not merely concerned with the liberal arts would attract more and better science talent to the College...
...article in the College Board Review, King asks, "Have the financial arms of the CEEB colleges been pulling hidden talent from oblivion or have we just been lifting candidates from each other's back pockets?" King goes on to point out that by far the majority of scholarship applicants at Harvard and equivalent colleges are students who will go to college somewhere else if they are denied aid. "I would be reasonably certain," King writes, "that at no College Scholarship Service college do as many as half the scholarship winners come from the neediest half of our nation's population...
...pratfalls, it was still Hollywood, pure Hollywood, more enduring than brass. Onto U.S. TV screens flashed a high-style gloss of lovely women and handsome men. bright-eyed before the topmost awards: the "Oscars" that signify which of them, in the opinion of their peers, have talent, too. There were so many stars in view that nothing anybody could do-neither an uncivil singing satire by Angela Lansbury, Dana Wynter and Joan Collins, nor some oddly tasteless quips by Bob Hope-could keep the movies from running off with television's highest rating of the season, and some...