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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...program would permit each of the state's 240 representatives to select one scholarship winner and two alternates each year. At first, the grants would be Applicable only to state-operated institutions, including the University of Massachusetts nine state teachers colleges, the maritime academy, and three textile schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Plan Backed by Dever | 3/17/1950 | See Source »

...Abundant Life. In Astoria, N.Y., Mrs. Dominick Rondi was excused from jury duty so that she could go to Manhattan and select the prizes she had won on a radio quiz show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 13, 1950 | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...were members of a panel from which the court was trying to select twelve jurors (and an alternate) to try the case of 41-year-old Dr. Hermann Sander for the "mercy killing" last December of his cancer-ridden patient, Mrs. Abbie Borroto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Similar to . . . Murder | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...purified isotopes are stored for packing in a long brick building. The innocent-looking bottles stand on racks behind a high, thick barrier. Watching their work in mirrors, the shipping clerks select a bottle. With remote-control devices that unscrew the bottle's cap, they take out a measured amount of liquid, put it into another bottle and seal it in the proper container, which may contain several hundred pounds of lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Factory | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...heads of embassies, is trying to talk the -Russians out of supporting a revolution in the province of Azerbaijan. His objectives: to safeguard British oil in Iran, check Russian expansion, keep a friendly government in power in Teheran. Cagey operator though he is, Essex has been careless enough to select as his assistant a man he has never seen before, Geologist Ivre MacGregor, an uncommunicative Scot who grew up in Iran. It is a choice that plagues and defeats him. Mac not only sympathizes with the revolution and gives the Russians a bill of health; he also cops sophisticated Kathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wrong Assignment | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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