Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point of fact, Arthur Summerfield's antismut cause is a good one; the mailing of pornography, especially to school-age youngsters, has become a serious problem. But by seeing smut where none existed, Summerfield had once more become an unwitting promotion man for professional publicists. Sighed a Summerfield aide: "We are just the fall guys in a publicity campaign...
...ably in several ministries (Pensions, Board of Trade, Agriculture), Heathcoat (pronounced hethcut) Amory never appears to seek power, but is ready and willing when it is thrust upon him. Many British pols believe that he will eventually make his muted, diffident way to the Prime Ministry itself, but his age, even more than Rab Butler's, is against him. For the present he will probably keep his job at the Treasury...
...troops inside India from Shipki Pass on the Tibetan border to the North-East Frontier Agency (see map). Last week he got back a blandly conciliatory note from Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai saying that the two countries' differences were nothing more than "an episode in our age-old friendship." But this time Nehru refused to be mollified. Most courteous, said he of the note, but any further Chinese aggression against India "will certainly be fully resisted." Added the Hindustan Times: "If another Bandung Conference were held today, it would be a conference of Asian and African countries...
...five years ago, in the midst of the depression, two Pennsylvania towns, Ambridge and Aliquippa, tried one of the first serious experiments in applying new ideas about the school year. Both towns were operating under the pressure of necessity--they did not have sufficient funds to handle the school-age population using conventional methods...
Harris said that this practice of shifting the burden of old age support to the poor and to state and local governments should be discouraged. While the Administration is now planning increases in the payroll tax rate to accumulate a large reserve fund, he stated, there is some question whether the appropriate financing methods should not be to increase the "very low level" of benefits or to postpone rises in rates...