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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telegram." Farouk, always in need of money, slapped a $14,000 defamation-of-character suit on Elsa, who also has little money but seldom needs it. The hearing ended last week, and three Paris judges will hand down their decision this week. His corpulent Majesty did not appear in court. Full-bodied Defendant Maxwell's out-of-court defense was basically zoological. "I've never been called a monkey," chattered she. "But I've often been called a young whale. Of course, I'm just as much a beast as Farouk...
...sharp rise ahead, even fewer saw any reason for gloom. The majority agreed with Economist Martin R. Gainsbrugh of the National Industrial Conference Board, who saw signs of a modest business upturn in the second half of 1957. Said Gainsbrugh: "Total business activity is considerably stronger than would appear from a quick glance at the figures...
...problem was to decentralize the thing and clarify the policy, simplify the administration and promote efficiency and avoid the concentration of stupidity. That is what I have been working on down here, too, the same way." The hearing room hushed expectantly when Wilson arrived at the Capitol to appear before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, for the Congress that used to bait him now knows him as Washington's saltiest character. The House's proposed 7% cut would "amount to gam bling unwisely with the security of the nation," he told the subcommittee, and if the House votes that...
...strategy, 3) its candidate for 1960. The issue: Government economy as a popular expression of a growing conservatism. The strategy: to take over the party after showing strength in the 1958 elections. (Such Old Guardsmen as Indiana's Senator Bill Jenner and Nevada's Senator "Molly" Malone appear safe for reelection, while some Eisenhower Republicans are by no means sure bets...
...only the beginning. In later work, which got little attention in the West, Pavlov sought to prove that dogs are of four temperamental types, "strong excitatory," "lively," "calm imperturbable, or phlegmatic," and "weak inhibitory."* Further, he developed an elaborate theory of both positive and negative conditioned responses, which appear in varying patterns when a dog is subjected to unendurable stress ("trans-marginally stimulated"). A dog usually breaks down if the stress signal, e.g., an electric shock, is merely increased in intensity, also if an unwonted time lag is left between the signal and the food that follows, or if signals...