Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Five thousand miles away in Stockholm, a white-starched, tail-coated assembly of the Nobel Foundation was about to bestow literature's most distinguished accolade on the products of his pencil. This week, "for his powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration," the Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded to Ernest Miller Hemingway, originally of Oak Park, III, and later of most of the world's grand and adventurous places...
Certainly there is no doubt that the College could find a way to expand physically; it could build fifteen Houses, two Lamonts, two Burrs, and a vastly expanded faculty. It could mean and undergraduate community of eight, or even ten undergraduate community of eight, or even ten thousand, rather than the present 4400. It would mean that Harvard could meet its vague "social obligations" by taking its share of the increasing thousands...
...pronounces (approximately) as Zho-wahn Kah-Jay Feel-yo. *'Six hundred thousand cruzeiros a year-$8,500 at the current free rate. *But after he became President, his first non-military caller was the Roman Catholic Archbishop...
...national presentation of "package" shows that include cameras, circuit lines, scripts and actors. Customers have found the rates are often far below the cost of picking up travel expenses for an entire company's sales force. Last week's show, for example, cost G.M. several hundred thousand dollars (including rental of 50 giant, mobile projectors that Halpern bought for $500,000). But it was much cheaper-and far less trouble-than trying to bring all the guests to Flint...
...crude rafts, sampans and Western warships, with all that was left of their previous lives wrapped in cotton bundles, the refugees headed south - aware that their very act of leaving might be their death warrant if Uncle Ho ever caught up with them. Last week several thousand refugees, fleeing from the Communist interior, got trapped on a sandbar off the coast of North Viet Nam. Before them lay the sea. Behind them lay the Communist land of compulsory joy. In frail craft, the braver, stronger ones made it out to the three-mile limit, where a French aircraft carrier waited...