Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INSPECTOR MAIGRET AND THE DEAD GIRL, by Georges Simenon (192 pp.; Crime Club; $2.75). The battered body of a young virgin, dressed in a cheap, rented evening gown, is found on a dark Paris street. That is all the inspector knows when he begins to collect the clues to an obscure, unhappy life. Until the last few wildly improbable pages it is medium-good Simenon, as fascinating as a real-life case because of painstaking police detail...
GUARANTEED ANNUAL WAGE suffered its first major setback in Ohio, where voters turned down a referendum to allow workers to collect unemployment pay simultaneously from the state and private industry. If Ohio does not approve dual unemployment compensation by the June 1, 1957 deadline, Ford and G.M. employees in Ohio will take advantage of a substitute contract provision under which they would alternate between state payments and company benefits calculated to help make up the difference...
...learn was how to make a good impression on their bosses and friends. His institute boomed into a quasi religion whose 450,000 disciples were certain that he had pointed the way to success. In 1935, Publisher Leon Shimkin of Manhattan's Simon & Schuster persuaded Carnegie to collect his lectures. The result, How to Win Friends, sold 5,000,000 copies in the English editions, was translated into 31 languages (including a recent Burmese version by Prime Minister U Nu). Sample Carnegie maxims: i) let the other man feel the idea is his, 2) smile, 3) let the other...
...shepherd cut when counting his flock. Then come the calendar keepers, the powerful group who could tell people when to plant crops. Later men developed more complicated desires. The farmer wanted to know how much land he had, the sailor what course to plot, the priest what taxes to collect. Out of each of these developed an addition to mathematics...
...greatest difficulties has always been to collect the blood that has been pledged, Guness stated. Of the 1800 who pledged last year, 400 failed to secure parental releases, and between 450 and 500 "just didn't show...