Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soft Sell. The hope of the Symington camp is that the other hopefuls' handicaps will keep any No. 1 choice from grabbing off the nomination on the early ballots, and that the deadlock-menaced convention will turn to just-about-everybody's No. 2, Stuart Symington, the man with no serious political scars or scabs...
...easygoing sort his father was. Something of a Puritan who lives a simple life with his one wife, he is a fervent antiCommunist, and is regarded as incorruptible. When the government recently announced that before the end of the year there would be a new constitution that would turn many of the powers of the National Assembly over to the King, everyone understood that power will go to a man who means to be a King in fact...
...modern method views speech as a means to comprehension. "The student must first acquire a new set of speaking habits," Stein says, "and acquire a sense for the language." In turn, this knowledge leads to an understanding of a new culture--an aim to which the entire Division of Modern Languages directs its efforts. After all, Geary points out, language is but one manifestation of a culture; and language itself cannot be segmented artificially into reading and speaking skills. By emphasizing the basic mechanics of speech, rather than the secondary rules of grammar, students acquire, far more quickly and much...
...same time that the varsity is meeting Princeton, Yale will be facing Penn at Philadelphia. It is the Bulldogs' turn to struggle with the problems the Penn field presents to visitors, and they will be up against a vengeful Quaker eleven. Furthermore, Penn captain and center half John Jerbasi should be back in action...
...Henry Clay Alexander. At 57, Alexander is chairman of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and perhaps the nation's most prestigious banker. He is heir to the famed tradition of the House of Morgan, which created huge industrial firms, bailed out whole governments and at the turn of the century all but controlled the financial destiny of the U.S. Morgan is still a name to conjure with. Its famed building at 23 Wall St. is known throughout the financial world as "The Corner." Said an international banker with an account at Alexander's bank: "When...