Word: fiat
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...nine to seven years are under way at the University of Vermont, Johns Hopkins and Northwestern. If such plans work well enough to be widely adopted, they should make preparation for the career of medicine less onerous and therefore more attractive. But nothing can be accomplished overnight or by fiat...
...lagniappe. a Fiat, a chinchilla stole, and a week in Las Vegas were auctioned off. Benny bid $200 for the privilege of hearing himself accompany George Burns. Burns upped the bid to $500, on the condition that Benny keep silent. He played anyway, and someone threw a dime at him. Sinatra kicked ice cubes at the audience and got into a staring match with John Wayne. The gaiety, which could hardly have been surpassed at a Forty & Eight Fun Night, continued till...
...hours after he was divorced by his third wife, Nancy ("Slim") Hayward, in Las Vegas, he married Pamela Churchill, 40, ex-wife of Sir Winston's fustian son, Randolph. Pamela, daughter of Baron Digby, had been reported friendly since her divorce from Randolph with a Rothschild, a Fiat executive and a U.S. TV oracle. Says a (female) friend: "She is a quiet, appealing temptress with a soft, lovely voice, who plays up enchantingly to men. She just can't help being a siren...
...inmates are in for crimes involving violence-from robbery to rape and murder. Most of the rest are burglars, bad-check artists, or men caught up in the narcotics racket. Alcoholism is the commonest complicating factor, and a prison branch of A.A. offers help. By administrative fiat, but for no good psychiatric reason, all homosexuals rated as "effeminate" or "aggressive" are housed in a single cell block. These are among the least hopeful cases...
...Long Live Peace." In his brief airport statement, Ike delivered his theme message of "peace and friendship in freedom," noted that in the U.S. more than 10 million Italian-descended citizens claim heritage "from the Italian civilization." Then he got into Gronchi's official Fiat, drove the long way into Rome along the Old Appian Way-the historic route. Crowd turnout in the heavy rain: thin. The motorcade rolled through the Gate of San Sebastiano, past the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum, into the Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini used to strut and harangue. Even there, only...