Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Education Department last week was busy preparing a special greeting (see advertisement in this issue). Part of the greeting is a new Summer Review Quiz on current affairs, a first-of-the-term supplement to TIME'S annual Current Affairs Test that is sent out early in the calendar year and is used in thousands of U.S. classrooms...
...York Coliseum. In the U.S., newspapers showed nine camera-laden U.S. Governors traipsing gaily through Moscow and Leningrad and Kozlov sightseeing around Manhattan with New York's Mayor Robert Wagner. While New Yorkers were jamming into the Coliseum to look over Soviet wares ranging from Sputnik models to calendar-realism paintings, workmen in Moscow's Sokolniki Park were putting last touches on the U.S. exhibition, to be officially opened later this month by Vice President Nixon...
...House passed separate wheat bills, both opposed by the Eisenhower Administration. The Senate pegged price supports at 65% of parity for farmers who plant full allotments, 75% for a 10% acreage cut, 85% for a 20% cut. It also set $35,000 as the maximum individual payment in any calendar year. The House offered a choice of planting full acreage at 50% of parity, or 75% of acreage at 90%, made $50,000 the maximum payment. Agriculture Department experts estimated that the Senate bill would cost an additional $150 million to $200 million, the House bill $110 million...
...gone down in the last few years, and, of those alleged subversives subpoenaed by the Commission, many have refused to appear and were not punished. In short, the Commission's excuse for existence seems to have disappeared. House Bill 2757, to revive and continue the Commission, appeared on the calendar yesterday for a second reading. Hopefully, it will be voted down in the near future...
...audience noted where he talked too fast and where too slowly). But more redolent of candidacy was his message. Lyndon demanded (triumphant boom) Democratic leadership and action in 1960 to save America. Then he offered (confidential whisper) examples of such action: "Hawaiian statehood had been on the calendar for 40 years-and a Democratic Senate passed it in four hours. Limiting debate had been on the calendar for nearly 30 years-and a Democratic Senate acted in three days. And it was a Democratic Senate that gave the nation the first civil rights bill in 82 years." Left...