Word: add
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drove home persuasively the point that, much as the U.S. wants peace and friendship, it cannot and will not be pushed around-and that in the nuclear age, attempts to push around add up to deadly folly...
...student works only to pass his exams. To supplement their incomes, badly trained professors assist crammers by writing and selling notebooks and "Made Easies." At that, so many students fail exams-partly because they arrive ill-prepared in the English that remains the medium of instruction-that colleges sometimes add a "grace mark" to the exam results to raise the percentage of passed candidates...
...this would clearly have violated the federal court order to deny no citizen entrance to a public school because of color, Faubus could hardly have expected the school board to take up his suggestion. But its rejection by the school board, as Faubus might also have foreseen, could only add to the troubles that face Little Rock as it prepares to reopen its schools next month...
...that his Lark is not the ultimate. One fault: the six-cylinder model is underpowered (he is beefing it up). He is not afraid of the Big Three's forthcoming compact cars. "They will have six-cylinder compact cars, but we have an eight," says he. S.P. will add a 1960 Lark four-door station wagon and a convertible, but confidently will make no basic changes in style. Churchill is betting that the Big Three's entries will fan public interest in U.S. smaller cars, double the market to more than 20%. And he believes that his Lark...
...first-half earnings of $1.6 million, expects "better than substantial" profits for the year v. a $1.8 million loss last year when it was in the worst position of any major U.S. airline (TIME, Dec.1). This week TWA, which received its jets after competitors American and Pan American, will add jet service to Philadelphia and Kansas City, bringing to ten the number of cities that its jets serve. TWA benefited from break-in bugs that other lines have found in Boeing 707s (TIME, June 8), which helped it maintain a topflight, on-time performance, with 80% of its jets departing...