Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going after his sixth consecutive two-year term as Michigan's Governor, bow-tied Soap Heir G. Mennen Williams, the aging (47) political prodigy, ran into his first primary contest in a decade. Opponent: William L. Johnson, owner of Ironwood's radio station WJMS, backed by insurgent Democrats, who dislike "Soapy" Williams' alliance with the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther. But against potent Soapy, Johnson proved to be a washout. Last week, by a nearly six-to-one margin, Michigan Democrats picked Williams to run in November against G.O.P. Nominee Paul D. Bagwell, Michigan State...
...Scripps-Howard's Knoxville News-Sentinel reported, after searching Washington for the original document, that Cooper might need the whole six-year term to find...
Although custom-tutored in privacy, Britain's royal Windsors have traditionally-like W. S. Gilbert's House of Peers -"made no pretense to intellectual eminence or scholarship sublime." Drawing down his term's end report from Cheam School, Charles, Prince of Wales, first heir to the throne to attend preparatory boarding school, showed an ambiguous relationship to the family tradition. With a 70, the prince led his 20-member class in geography. "In French," said a Cheam teacher, "he made excellent progress," i.e., 52; but "he did not do so well in maths...
...year to establish courses in foreign languages not ordinarily taught in the U.S., and short-term institutes for the study of language-teaching methods, with stipends for students who attend...
...outset, both bills bore genuine promise of a substantial long-term federal boost for education on a broad scale. The House bill would cost about $1 billion during the next seven years, and would provide...