Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partly because she is a woman and he had promised to install women in positions of responsibility. But he chose her principally because Oveta Hobby possesses a rare talent for tactful administration. The Senate agreed with the President. Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson, a Texan himself, took her under his wing and introduced her around Capitol Hill. When her name came up before the Senate Finance Committee, the Senators confirmed her in seven minutes...
...Charles de Gaulle's Rally of the French People lost the most ground. His party lost 15 out of its 26 seats in the Paris municipal council, 21 out of 25 in Marseilles. Principal gainers were the independent parties ranging themselves behind ex-Premier Antoine Pinay, whose right-wing, inflation-fighting regime won tremendous popular prestige before its downfall in December. The French Communist Party held its impressive majority in working-class districts, but lost some support in rural constituencies...
...look back on some impressive achievements. Now, alongside the new hospital. North Carolina's two-year medical school has been expanded into a full, four-year institution. There is also a new school of dentistry, a school of nursing, and the hospital is building a 75-bed psychiatric wing. The state, the Federal Government and local communities have cooperated in the building of 71 general hospitals, 35 health centers and 33 nursing homes. At the state capital in Raleigh last week, the North Carolina House of Representatives approved a loan fund of $50,000 a year for medical students...
...tones, velvety browns and yellows, and Pannini's The Pantheon and Other Monuments of Ancient Rome, whose picnickers, barking dog and proud, weed-grown ruins form a landscape as gently charming as anyone could wish. Among Houston's 30 choices, which will be delivered after its new wing is completed next fall: the 15th century painting of St. Lucy Led to Her Martyrdom, by Siena's Bernardino Fungai...
...other change, designed to improve the field and raise the quality of the courses is the strengthening its psychology wing. Courses from the Psychology Department are being offered in this field of Social Relations...