Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During his term at Rider, swimming was made a major sport on the strength of Brooks' record and it was one of the few small colleges successful enough to merit Ivy opposition. He had a similar record at Detroit and with the Crimson freshmen...
...other action last night, the Council decided to set up a long term committee to report on Harvard-Radcliffe relations and the effect of Radcliffe on the College. The move came after long debate and the vote required a tie-breaking ballot by the president...
...moved closer. Reporters, TV cameramen clustered noisily. "Hey, coon," hissed a leather-jacketed teenager, and reporters' pencils scribbled. But Virginia's Governor had not made riots respectable. Negro and white pupils solemnly waited for the doors to open, entered in orderly fashion to register for the new term. By week's end white youngsters were cautiously making friends with the newcomers, and all were at work to make up time lost since Governor Almond closed the school in September...
...built for 600,000 children now crowded out. Hospitals are needed; Betancourt says: "We should never again witness the spectacle of two women ready to give birth occupying one single bed." At first Betancourt will be pinched for funds for the reconstruction job. Dictator Perez Jimenez left short-term debts of $1.4 billion, and half of them still remain to be paid...
...ornate palace he is occupying for a second term (his first: 1939-45), wispy, white-haired President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, 69, told TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho in elegant French: "Be tranquil, mon cher. There will be no collapse." Quite possibly he was right. In a strange alliance, this dandified scion of the rich class that Peru calls "the oligarchs" has teamed up with Ramiro Prialé, 55, the revolutionary who bosses Latin America's greatest mass political movement, the Apra, to put Peruvian democracy on a working, paying basis...