Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's 15 million fumetti fans-readers of the photographic romance magazines that take their name from the dialogue balloons-usually go for soap-opera plots. But last winter a Milan fumetto entrepreneur, Pino Vignal, scored a modest inaugural success -80,000 copies-with a fumetto magazine based on the Bible...
...announced that this was the new retreat for retired A.G.V.A. members. So far no A.G.V.A. member has retired there. Asked one critic: "What kind of a home is it up there in the hills? You need overcoats, underwear and everything else. What are they going to do in the winter-sit in the basement and watch...
...class increased in size after the war, the Smoker was moved to Sanders and became something far too close to a Bacchanalia for anyone's comfort. Attempts were made, over the past few years, to initiate various measures to make the Smoker a pleasant outlet for mid-winter tensions without running the risk of loss of control of the situation. These attempts failed, and the Smoker has been abolished." The University had apparently failed to establish the desired kind of atmosphere at the Freshman Smoker, an atmosphere that one Administrator had described as "A Smoker to which any student would...
...Bunting will assume office on July 1, 1960, replacing Wilbur K. Jordan, who has been President of the College since 1943. Jordan announced his resignation last winter, and a special committee has been working for several months to select his successor. Over a hundred names were given at least some consideration...
When it came to choosing sites for the 1964 Olympics, the I.O.C. had much less trouble. Tokyo won the summer games with 34 of the 58 votes. Innsbruck, Austria, which barely lost to Squaw Valley as host for the 1960 winter games, was an even easier winner, with 49 votes in favor...