Word: threes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cabinet members averaged 47, four years older than the President-elect himself. There were six Protestants, two Jews, one Roman Catholic and one Mormon, or-to put it another way-three Governors, two businessmen, two lawyers, two State Department hands and a Congressman. Some critics thought that, as individuals, they were an unspectacular lot, and wondered whether Kennedy had planned it that way. But they were indisputably impressive in total and they added up to an impression of the kind of "vigah" that Kennedy had long promised "to get America moving again...
Beginning in January, 1959, Algerian students arrived in America. Knowing little or no English, they were placed in the English Language Institutes of Columbia, Rutgers, and Michigan. Within three months the students were speaking good enough English to be admitted to prominent American universities. Their records so far, stated Clifford, have been "far above average...
Evidence that the program has been extremely successful was given by a unique three day conference held recently by scholars and educators from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. It was "the first international conference for the purpose of furthering education ever held in Eastern Asia," Reischauer said...
...Brattle has moved within the Iron Curtain this week in its search for the bizarre, the artistic, and the foreign. The result is a collection of three Soviet films, one with subtitles and two, including the feature, with dubbed narration and native music...
...Crimson opens the tournament in Troy, N.Y., with probably its toughest opponent of the three-day round-robin, R.P.I. and the varsity face off Wednesday night in a game that should prove the sextet's strength among the top Eastern teams...