Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously convinced that there is no longer any electoral mileage in nationalization of industry, Labor's planners said almost in passing that they would renationalize steel and road transport (denationalized by the Tories since 1951), and let it go at that. But Gaitskell obviously hoped to make big campaign capital of Labor's promise of an immediate 20% boost in old-age pensions, and other welfare benefits, all to be paid for by "planned expansion" that would also get Britain back into "the race for higher productivity among industrial nations...
...first acts in office, Sauvé took steps to consolidate himself as the new Chef, eying his Union Nationale party's first big test in expected elections next spring. From the treasury he sprang $16.5 million to build old couples' homes and aid 63 private high schools across the province. (Twenty of the schools never had received grants before because Duplessis enigmatically decided to ignore them.) Affably, Paul Sauvé set out to woo Quebec newsmen, who often feuded with Duplessis. He named a press attache "so the public can quickly be informed.'' And he quickly...
...Roman film set, Actress Rita Gam had a visitor. "At last here's a man I can ask to my apartment without making my husband the least bit jealous," said Rita, in a statement not exactly calculated to flatter big (a gefilte 198½ lbs.), bagel-eyed Harry Golden, 57, bestselling author (Only in America, For 2? Plain) and publisher of the Carolina Israelite. Back in Manhattan, Rita's husband, Viking Press Executive Tom Guinzburg, tossed in his own 2?, said: "We're all good Israelis...
...with sharp, abrasive edges-rebels with clear minds and uncowed consciences, critics of society, not adjusters to it." The words would have a stirring ring coming from any educator, but they take on added meaning coming from the dean of faculty of a new public college spun off by big (20,000 students) Michigan State University, long known as an "ag and tech" institution. Last week, at the opening of the new college at Oakland, 60 miles east of M.S.U.'s main East Lansing campus, crewcut Dean Robert Hoopes, 39, onetime Marine Corps aviator, laid out his goal...
...Pattern. With discontent so widespread, many a community has set up comprehensive schools that lump grammar, technical and secondary modern schools under one roof with as many as 1,000 students. The new schools (about 90 so far) remodeled on a familiar U.S. pattern: the big, inclusive high school. They have headaches also familiar to Americans, including Teddy boys who carry flick knives to class, smash windows, abuse masters. But they do solve the basic problem: how to give late starters a chance to switch from one track to another. Says Headmaster George Rogers of London's Walworth Secondary...