Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixty-two school superintendents from throughout the nation opened discussions yesterday at the ten-day meeting of the Advanced Administrative Institute of the Graduate School of Education...
Died. Charles Starkweather, 20, mass murderer who in 1958 shot, stabbed and clubbed to death ten people, including friends, foes and strangers, in a wild, inexplicable, three-day spree with his 14-year-old girl friend; by electrocution; in Lincoln...
...verandas, ennobled by stately Grecian porticoes, were a prototype of indoor-outdoor living. The New South, too, is fast on its way to evolving its own concept of modern comfort. Last week the American Institute of Architects, announcing the winners of a competition that drew 135 entries from the ten Gulf and Southeast Atlantic states, found that the New South still cherishes its breezeways, highceilinged rooms, and a taste for elegance and lighthearted formality in living. Outstanding among the winners...
...home for F. A. Deering (opposite). In a sharp break with the low, rambling Florida beach house. Architect Rudolph erected a building of surprising elegance and solidity on Casey Key, a sand strip near Sarasota, Fla. A shoebox on the exterior, the house is full of surprises inside. Ten rooms are ranged over five different levels like so many stage elevations. Ceilings vary from 16 ft. 6 in. (for the broad beach porch) to 8 ft. 4 in. (for the bedrooms) in an attempt "to introduce a certain amount of adventure into the progression through the various areas...
...cultural handicappers who tick off lists of the Ten Best Books To Be Stranded in Toledo With have missed a bet. Far more interesting might be a compilation of the Ten Best Bad Novels-books whose artistic flaws are mountainous but whose merits, like Loreleis on the rocks above, keep on luring readers. A place on such a list would go to Author Condon's second novel, an almost complete catalogue of humanity's disorders, including incest, dope addiction, war, politics, brainwashing and multiple murder. The book carries a superstructure of plot that would capsize Hawaii, and badly...