Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five years ago the Italian Tricolor flapped proudly in a fresh sea breeze from thousands of windows and rooftops of Trieste. Quick-marching into the Piazza dell' Unità, beplumed Bersaglieri were hard put to it to clear a path through the delirious crowd of 250,000 that shook the vast square with endless roars of "Viva l'Italia! Viva Trieste Italiana!" Thus, after nine postwar years as a "free territory," the citizens of the Adriatic port city of Trieste deliriously greeted their reunion with Italy...
...many a lesser pianist is already beginning to fade from sight. The son of a carpenter (and amateur musician), he studied piano at the Dresden Music School, at 18 started to play concerts all over Germany. A decade later World War II interrupted his career. Assigned to an antiaircraft unit, he did not touch a piano for seven years, except to play in U.S. military hospitals as a P.W. at war's end. When he resumed his piano career in 1946, at 34, after a year of small-town orchestra conducting, he found that his technique was rusty...
...October, as a result of the steel shortage, the auto industry operated at only 77.8% of its planned 646,200-unit level; in November it is planning only 290,000 units, the lowest schedule for the month since 1946. Even an early resumption of steelmaking would not help the industry in November, because of the time needed to fabricate the steel into auto parts and fill supplier pipelines. Faced with an auto shortage, buyers rushed to the showrooms. Dealers sold almost as many new cars in the first 20 days of October (338,465) as they sold...
Plans for deconversion of some suites in all House except Quincy would reduce, from four to three, the number of students now living in a "converted" three-bedroom unit. Since World War II space deficiency has compelled the House to place an excessive amount of students in each suite...
...person in a welter of data," Dr. Bidwell notes, "but our main concern is for the individual." Students cannot be categorized into single groups, he feels, and thus the project definitely has a slant toward individuality. Although no final results can be expected for a few years, the new Unit B may soon produce some significant insights into the inter-relation of the individual and the College...