Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Sorbonne for a year), Mrs. Rockefeller is a loyal and energetic Wellesley trustee. Two months ago, she fired off a letter to her husband's office, reporting that Wellesley's campaign to raise $15 million for faculty salaries was almost three years old and less than one-third to the goal. Last week she proudly revealed the tardy but profitable reply...
...podium was 83-year-old Bruno Walter, who learned the works of Gustav Mahler from the composer himself. Standing beside him was a singer scarcely more than a third his age-Maureen Forrester, 29, the contralto whose big-time career was launched under Walter's baton. With the forces of the New York Philharmonic last week, Conductor Walter and Contralto Forrester gave Carnegie Hall audiences an unforgettable performance of one of Mahler's greatest works, Das Lied von der Erde, whose premiere Walter conducted in Munich half a century...
...secrets, e.g., heating golf balls with pocket handwarmers fired by lighter fluid, because a warm ball has more bounce than a cold one. They share in the physical ailments of their profession: back trouble from the constant twisting of the spine (Finsterwald, Marty Furgol); a torn tendon along the third finger of the left hand that exposes a nerve, keeps a player from gripping his club firmly (Rosburg, Snead, Jack Burke Jr.). They share in their social life. Driving some 35,000 miles a year on the tour that begins in January with the Los Angeles Open and ends...
...Both Sabin and Cox asserted that there is enough evidence from millions of oral vaccinations in a score of foreign countries to show that their vaccines are safe and sure.* But each insisted that his own was better than either of its two rivals. (Dr. Sabin has attacked the third vaccine, developed by the Wistar Institute's Dr. Hilary Koprowski, charging that it contains viruses that cause disease in monkeys and might be dangerous for man.) Dr. Sabin gives his vaccine in three separate doses a month apart-one for each main type of polio virus...
Valiant, after starting later and well behind, is beginning to roll; last week's production of 7,000 units edged Chevrolet's Corvair out of third place behind Ford's Falcon and American Motors' Rambler. This fall, announced Colbert, Chrysler will market another compact, the Lancer, as a somewhat larger stablemate for the Valiant. It will have a 30°-inclined, six-cylinder engine turning up 101 h.p., and a price tag just a bit more than the Valiant's factory list price...