Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, presided over by Vice President Nixon, 55 key U.S. business leaders met in Washington to discuss job equalization. All heads of major companies that together account for $43.5 billion of total U.S. production, they arrived at some interesting conclusions. Examples: ¶The Vice President set the cost of discrimination to the U.S. economy at $30 billion a year...
Although all intramural games were cancelled on account of rain yesterday, Dunster and Kirkland decided to hold their scheduled soccer game. The Funsters won 3 to 2, with Archie Leyasmeyer scoring two of the three winning goals...
...only factors to which Dr. Keys would give major responsibility were physical exercise (or the lack of it) and diet. He tackles the diet problem from the viewpoint of fat content. The fat in the U.S. diet, he points out, has been going up for 50 years; fats account for as much as 40% of its calories. In Sweden the proportion is 38%. But in Sardinia it is only 22%. The clincher, for Dr. Keys, is to be found among Yemenite Jews who had no coronary disease in their native habitat but have begun to develop it since they migrated...
Phrenology appealed to the optimism and confidence of 19th century man, just as psychoanalytical theory appeals to today's pessimism and fear. In this disquieting account of the rise and fall of phrenological "science," Author John D. Davis, onetime professor of history at Smith, has embedded a bale of fun among his footnotes. It is humbling stuff. If today's Pundit Walter Lippmann may be heard announcing Freud as "among the greatest who have contributed to thought," not so long ago President Garfield was having his "head read" and Walt Whitman was proudly reciting a poet...
Introduction of one more account of the events leading to the burning of Joan of Arc involves considerable audacity. Yet the current version, The Lark, justifies the attempt. With beguiling Julie Harris in the title role, The Lark is a startling, modernistic interpretation. More important, it is conceived from a distinctly American view-point. Lillian Hellman has skillfully adapted Jean Anouiln's material into a revealing portrait of a high spirited Joan...