Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Open Door. Cord's political start came when he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the state senate from Esmeralda County; he explains his decision to accept as a simple matter of civic consciousness. Cord quickly began moving into the Democratic power vacuum created by the 1954 death of U.S. Senator Pat McCarran. He won labor support by pushing through a bill hiking unemployment benefits from $50 to $75 a week. He found favor with Nevada's powerful gambling interests by leading the fight for a bill giving them new tax benefits (the bill was vetoed...
...weighing the pros and cons of a summit conference, the United States must accept the fact that it will realize no success without making considerable sacrifices. As the chances for success grow dimmer, the requisite sacrifices grow greater. If the drift continues, the decision will make itself, and once again this country will have failed to articulate a conscious choice between conflicting alternatives...
Slightly fewer candidates have been accepted this year than in former years. The Admmissions Committee hopes to be able to take about forty people from the waiting list, according to Bender. In the past two years, no one on the waiting list has been admitted over the summer. This tends to encourage the best people to accept their admission to other colleges rather than to take the slim chance of getting into Harvard after a summer of waiting...
...said the broader solution for the nation was "encouraging productive private enterprise." He pledged that there would be no new expropriation of foreign investments, though industries already nationalized would be kept. He announced that he was taking over as president of the floundering state oil monopoly and would accept aid from private capital, "without abolishing state control...
...means, ruled the trustees, the Art Institute of Chicago should accept the traveling show of Amateur Winston Churchill's paintings (TIME, Feb. 10). No, growled Director Daniel Catton Rich, 54, "we do not show the work of amateurs unless they have been passed by professional juries." Rich won the debate; the Churchill exhibit (which last month drew a record 147,255 spectators at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art) was turned down. Having dealt decisively with the threat of being overruled, Dan Rich last week coolly resigned...