Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...INTERNATIONAL) appeared to have put the U.S.-British alignment askew; 3) a Tokyo dispatch reported that the State Department had blithely advised its staff by memo-on Dec. 23, before the President had made his own decision-to play down the strategic importance of Formosa and anticipate its fall...
Next June, the Met announced, it would stage a show drawn from its own collection and entitled "American Painters, 1900-1950." That would be followed in the fall by a competitive exhibition-selected by regional juries composed largely of artists-of new American paintings. The first show would doubtless point up historical gaps in the Met's collection that need filling; the second would supply the Met with a broad selection of hot hors d'oeuvres to purchase from, help bring its collection up to date...
About 5% of all workers, Dr. McMurry believes, are chronic malcontents and 1% are paranoids. He says that such workers join unions to vent their unresolved, aggressive impulses upon management. He believes that union leaders fall into three main groups: 1) sincere idealists; 2) emotionally immature neurotics who tend to be exhibitionists; 3) psychopathic personalities who regard labor as a racket...
...bulldozers and diesel-engined tractors it expected to buy in the U.S. and Canada, Great Britain's Colonial Development Corp. last fall asked the World Bank for a $5,000,000 loan. C.D.C. officials, who considered that sum merely "the first bite of the cherry," indicated they might later ask the World Bank for as much as $100 million...
Bill Biggs and Len Hedberg are Dartmouth's top scorers, along with Red Rowe, Lampe's prize end this fall and number one substitute on his basketball team. Missing, however, is last year's star, Ed Leede, holder of almost every Dartmouth scoring record, who is now playing with the Boston Celties...