Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...86th birthday, Sir Winston Churchill, recovering from the fracture of a minor bone in his back from a bed room fall, abruptly announced that he intended to rise phoenixlike and have a party. When Lady Churchill and his doctors vetoed the inspiration, Britain's most eminent citizen took it quite well, spent most of the day in bed accepting personal greetings from friends, children and grandchildren, and shoveling through the blizzard of congratulations that fell upon the threshold of his London town house in Hyde Park Gate. At the family luncheon table, Sir Winston presided over a mighty repast...
Cleopatra was once rendered unto Caesar in a rug, but today she is wrapped up in an insurance policy. Before 20th Century-Fox began filming Cleopatra early this fall, the studio spent an estimated $390,000 in premiums for a Lloyd's of London standard policy covering possible delays. Then production got under way in a spectacular, 8½-acre, open-air reproduction of Alexandria, just west of London. But in the title role, Elizabeth Taylor turned out to be little more than queen...
Where is the act of purpose, the work of thought to come from? Even with the will to achieve it, deliberately acquiring a consensus may sound as absurd as deliberately deciding to fall in love. But for those about to embark regretfully on a dubious, consensusless future, Father Murray has a further word. "It just happens," he says in effect, "that I have here a device which any reasonably intelligent person may apply to lead him to the consensus, the public philosophy." And with an urbane, engaging smile, out of his long black clericals he pops it: natural...
...varsity fencing squad soundly defeated the Bradford-Durfee fencers from Fall River, Mass., Saturday at the I.A.B. Winning in both the foil and sabre divisions, the Crimson team took victory on total points, 19 to 8; Bradford-Durfee won only in the epee class, and there by only one match...
...useful" with the proposal currently under consideration. Government officials from Nigeria, Kenya, and other African nations have shown interest in employing American college graduates as secondary school teachers. The University, however, has not yet "officially looked at" the proposal to send 20 to 25 seniors to western Nigeria next fall...