Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated three more months) with a cracked hip; peppery Tennistar (and 1950 U.S. singles champion) Art Larsen, 31, in Castro Valley, Calif., partially paralyzed and blind in one eye after a motor scooter accident last month. (Larsen's tennis colleagues announced last week that a Manhattan benefit tournament will be staged next month to help Larsen meet his $100-a-day medical bills.) Meanwhile, another tennistar, World Champion Pro Poncho Gonzales, 28, visiting in Australia, took his ailing right hand to a Sydney doctor, learned that he has a small tumor requiring immediate surgery that may end his career...
...worse than those who die at sea and get no benefit from the tradesmen, are those who want inexpensive funerals. One mortican describes how he did it for a friend. "I kept the rose shades on the lamps in the reposing room and saw to it that there were no bright lights in the chapel...
...counter what the Fund sees as a common tendency for students to wait for "canned" learning rather than to pursue their own educations. The faculty, except for a small core of permanent members, would be largely on temporary leave from the parent insitutions, enabling both students and professors to benefit from a constant exposure to new ways of thinking and teaching...
...Zellerbach: "The majority of Americans support private enterprise, not as a God-given right but as the best practical means of conducting business in a free society. They regard business management as a stewardship, and they expect it to operate the economy as a public trust for the benefit of all the people...
Businessmen who once decried Gov ernment meddling in the economy also recognize that most federal police powers, e.g., regulation of the stock market, benefit business as well as the consumer. Most businessmen today agree with Du Pont Chairman Walter S. Carpenter Jr. that the anti-trust laws, under which his com pany has been haled into court 22 times, "are fair and should be vigorously enforced." Though some businessmen still argue publicly that the Federal Government should stop regulating business, the majority agree privately that Government intervention is preferable to the economy of the jungle. Says Standard...