Word: currents
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...revolution against King Farouk, was once again at liberty. Naguib, who proved too good to be strong, was first slapped into confinement when he showed signs of developing mass popularity and thereby outgrowing his role as front man for a junta led by Egypt's current President, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Though Naguib was freed last July on the anniversary of his revolution, his new status passed unnoticed until last week, because he continues to enjoy life in the same well-accoutered villa that was his "prison...
...current monarch, Prince Franz Joseph II, has broken with history. He lives in Vaduz (pop. 3,300), Liechtenstein's capital. There he keeps-almost entirely to himself-one of the greatest private art collections in the world. Except for a 1948 show of 200 works in Lucerne, hardly any of the prince's 1,500 paintings, 75 tapestries, or the vast assortment of bronzes porcelain, baroque silver, Renaissance sculpture, Gothic and Renaissance furniture are ever seen by the public. Instead 95% of the collection stays in the prince's castles, mostly in the cellar and a tower...
When Young died, Kirby simplified the company's capital structure, placed the preferred stock on a current-dividend basis and let Alleghany's cash board build up. His reluctance to put Alleghany's cash to work caused a break with the Murchisons, as well as Young's widow who sold her stock to the Murchisons to abet their proxy battle...
Board fees will remain at the present level unless revision of the current meal plan necessitates an increase, Dean Brown said. Although the College "has always tried to make overall raise in room and board charges the same year tuition rates have been increased," she noted, "student pressure" for a change in the meal program may result in higher board rates if a more expensive plan is approved by a majority of the undergraduates...
Minor observations: Professor Riesman's statement that the men who produced the Daedalus symposium on arms control were "mad rationalists" Is incorrect, dangerously misleading, detrimental to his cause, and symptomatle of the under-current of panic which has affected some of our best minds. We have the good images: We need good ideas. The fall 1960 issue of contains Ideas in rich profusion. Professor Riesman's speech did not. His upon the importance of the virility age" In the American male, and its sense in American Motherhead, factors in our foreign policy, seems little everdone. He is correct, however about...