Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Harvard University Debate Council took second place Saturday at the Fourth Annual Brown Invitational Debate Tournament. The tournament, one of the major fall debating contests, was won by Georgetown University of Washington...
...President's method was to lure independent and Democratic voters with an above-the-battle appeal that nonetheless made clear what side of the battle Ike was really on. Last week's trip was Ike's idea alone: yet the itinerary and the themes of his major speeches were carefully cleared and approved by Nixon's campaign managers...
...major address, before a galaxy of industry brass assembled at Cobo Hall for the 43rd National Automobile Show, was a philosophic essay on the nature of U.S. capitalism. His major points: wealthy U.S. allies must do more to help underdeveloped nations, particularly through the United Nations; underdeveloped countries should not forget that the outstanding fact of U.S. capitalism is not its material prowess but its unique sense of social responsibility...
...quickly with late news, and while it has shown its ability to summarize longstanding problems (as in Murrow's See It Now), TV in general has often failed to handle a big current event with analytic depth. To meet that need, Eyewitness will cover a major news story of each week, is pledged to change its story within hours of air time if necessary. So far the show has been effective but not always as flexible as promised. Its coverage of the Congo was long-range feature rather than news reporting; its analysis of the U.N. sessions, however...
This week the Boston Museum of Fine Arts opens a major show of 151 drawings, oils and watercolors intended to remind Americans that Maurice Prendergast was, in fact, a rebel of note. Timid by nature and without a shred of temperament, he painted a sunshine world of parks, picnics and parasols, and peopled it with a race of doll-like creatures who seemed on perpetual holiday. Yet he was the first U.S. artist to paint with broken colors, helped organize New York's 1913 Armory Show, which clamorously launched "modern art" in the U.S. His big trouble since...