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...Little Brat." Bevan was born 51 years ago in the Welsh hills which are slag-pocked and crumpled like a tattered old flannel blanket. The names of his brothers & sisters sounded like a Celtic fairy tale-Blodwyn, Myfanwy, Arianwen, lorwerth. There was nothing romantic about the Bevans' tiny four-room house with its sanded floor. "There were never less than seven of us in the house, and an invalid relative occupied one room," recalls Bevan, now the King's minister in charge of housing. He was an avid reader. As he trudged along Tredegar's streets...
...schools. Each department would approve only those courses which were adaptable to the individual student's program. The system would draw upon Faculty members' familiarity with the quality of instruction in their fields at other institutions, and at the same time relieve University Hall of the responsibility of giving blanket approvals to certain entire schools...
...their common trade; 3) he is boss and intends to assert it; 4) the American majority and most men & women of good will support him down to the item; and 5) if his friends are criticized, with or without good basis, it is a virtue to make a blanket defense of them and keep them in the places to which they are assigned...
Hebert declared that a blanket indictment of the Un-American Activities group is unfair. "Individuals, not the committee, are responsible for any misdeeds that have occurred," he said. Elaborating, he attacked political motives of some committee members...
...industrial corporation (gauged by its $5 billion in assets) and its manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric Co., Inc., with "conspiracy to monopolize" the U.S. telephone business. The Government's attack, in preparation for more than a year, was no surprise. But not even A.T. & T. expected such a blanket barrage...