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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a waiting list for Cadillacs in New Orleans. Said a stenographer in Austin, Texas: "I just bought an air-conditioned Ford. I know I couldn't afford the air conditioning, but then I couldn't afford the Ford to begin with, so I just went ahead and got both." The probability that she would manage to pay for it was very high...
With increasing success, however, the question of security solves itself. When a free-lancer begins to write regularly for several magazines, he can begin to count on their checks just as the magazine can count on the quality of the articles it orders from him. A free-lancer who has stood the gaff long enough to become successful finds it a good life. Says Oregon Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger, who free-lanced for years before he was elected to the Senate: "There's no better existence than a free-lancer's if you can make...
When those humid winds begin to add warmth to an already unbearably exam period, little irritations seem to boil over with mounting regularity. But minor complaints, and the passions that fan them, have never seemed quite right for a coolly argued editorial. Accordingly, we have bowed to the twin gods of Research and Significance, consistently showing that reorganization of University Hall could provide the dollars for any number of revolutionary projects. Should it prove possible to support the needy with administrative salaries, that too will be advocated. The problems of the State Department have proved no more perplexing than Dean...
Under the new plan, the student will now begin work in his concentration field in his sophomore year. Formerly, he did not start until junior year. Also, juniors and seniors, as well as certain sophomores, will be eligible for participation in a new interdepartmental Honors Program which will emphasize seminars, and require a set of comprehensive examinations instead of ordinary course finals...
Russian-born Dr. Albert Sabin, 48, director of Cincinnati's Children's Hospital Research Foundation. His alternative: instead of killing a virulent virus, use a living virus that is nonvirulent to begin with...