Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...your May 2 story on Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller's success in getting a contribution for Wellesley's fund-raising campaign from husband Governor Nelson Rockefeller: we are an illustrious, independent school educating kids aged 4-17, one-third on scholarship, all colors and creeds. We are busily engaged in raising $2,000,000 for a desperately needed new school. We love Tod, and submit...
They had Powers' "confession," too ("I plead guilty to the fact that I have flown over Soviet territory"), but any suggestion that his prompt admission marked him as a defector was quickly denied in Washington. In an age of such sophisticated third-degree methods as "truth se rums," agents are taught to recognize the inevitable - and talk. Powers, for one, had little to tell beyond his own personal history. He had been trained as a pilot, not a spy. His instruments did his snooping...
...local elections for borough offices throughout England and Wales, his Conservative Party rolled up a gain of 426 seats (out of 3.519 at stake). The Liberals gained 51 seats. Big loser: Labor, whose net loss of 460 seats reflected the policy quarrels that have racked the party since its third straight defeat by the Tories in last October's general elections...
Died. Marion Edwards Park, 84, the third president (1922-42) of high-ranking Bryn Mawr College, who did much to liberalize the rigid curriculum by permitting more electives, in 1926 daringly urged her graduates to seek a career-for a year, at least; of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Plymouth, Mass...
...Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle: Vol. Ill, Salvation 1944-1946. Written in bold, eloquent prose that serves as an admirable carriage for the author's honesty and sense of destiny, this third and last volume of memoirs is a revealing testament to the man and his country...