Word: bending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholics of school age. The best evidence on how they fare, comparatively, comes from the Rev. Joseph H. Fichter, S.J., head of the sociology department at Loyola University. Testing social standards, social skills, family relations and school and community relations in typical parochial and public schools in South Bend, Ind., he found that pupils were nearly identical: both "accept and demonstrate honesty, obedience, gratitude, self-control and kindliness in about the same proportions...
...price of quitting the auto business came high for the hapless Studebaker Corp. Last week President Byers A. Burlingame reported that closing down its South Bend auto plant (TIME, Dec. 20) cost the company $64 million -for canceling contracts, writing off inventories, paying workers' severance and losses on plant and equipment. Result: after earning $489,500 in 1962, the company rode in with a $16.9 mil lion loss...
Studebaker, which now makes cars only in Hamilton, Ont., is also trying to sell off its South Bend truck plant...
...Word of Caution. On crossexamination, Waller brought out Beckwith's militant segregationist sentiments. Beckwith admitted writing a letter to a Jackson newspaper in which he said: "I shall bend every effort to rid the U.S. of integrationists, whoever and wherever they may be." As Waller read the excerpt, Beckwith leaned forward to caution him solicitously: "I want you to understand; and where there is humor intended, I want you to laugh and smile; and where it is serious, I want you to be serious...
...falling asleep, though the Encyclopaedia Britannica says all humankind adopts an approximately horizontal position. This is in contrast with birds, which sleep standing on one leg, with beak tucked under wing. Most people sleep on their sides, spending more time on one than the other, and tend to bend the hips and draw up the knees a little, the better to relax. Sleeping supine is likely to cause snoring, which may wake the sleeper himself, besides disturbing others...