Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in hundreds of arid mountain villages and scores of swarming coastal towns, the citizens of semiautonomous Sicily quietly went to the polls and made their much-ballyhooed choice. To the confusion of just about everybody except the Sicilians, the real victor was neither Communism nor Christian Democracy. It was "Sicilianism" in the orotund person of Silvio Milazzo, president of Sicily's regional government...
...Margherita of Savoy (1851-1926), strongwilled, mandolin-playing wife of Umberto I, mother of Victor Emmanuel...
...counter to all this, Andrei Gromyko, who has shown a tireless talent for saying the same thing in the same way, offered some apparent concessions of his own. The West, he conceded, does have the victor's right to maintain occupation forces in Berlin, and the Soviet price for a Berlin settlement no longer requires Western recognition of Communist East Germany. Then came the old stall: Russia would not discuss the question of access until the Western powers agreed that Berlin become a "free city," i.e., until they renounced their occupation rights. And there matters stopped-approximately where they...
...Glenn Jr. '59, of Eliot House and Washington, D.C., Guido G. Goldman '59, of Winthrop House and New York City, Robert Goldman '59, of Winthrop House and Far Rockaway, N.Y., Thomas L. Gritzka '59, of Dunster House and Portland, Ore., John M. Gross '59, of Leverett House and Brookline, Victor W. Guillemin '59, of Leverett House and Oak Park, III., Robert C. Hartshorne '58, of Kirkland House and Cambridge, Gregory M. Harvey '59, of Kirkland House and Morristown, N.Y., Ralph H. Henderson '60, of Kirkland House and Pleasantville, N.Y., Thomas E. Hill Jr. '59, of Kirkland House and St. Paul...
When each D.J. showed up, RCA Victor handed him $1,000,000 in "play money," but the scrip called for solid value. The D.J.s were supposed to increase their holdings by gambling and by making frequent trips to the company's "Hospitality Suite" where they could obtain liquid refreshments plus 5,000 "dollars" for every visit. On Memorial Day, in exchange for the play money, RCA Victor auctioned off a stereo set, a color TV set, 500 real dollars worth of clothes, a trip for two to Europe, and a Studebaker Lark to the highest bidders-and the bidders...