Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reciprocal trade act was just a bargaining point. "I would like to set the record straight. It is a proposal dictated by the facts." Among the facts: six principal nations of Western Europe are embarked on a program of tariff reduction that will result in a tariff-free common market expected in 1962-and the U.S. will need the powers set out in the reciprocal trade act to bargain with the common market area to mutual advantage...
...jumble. Antigua collects duties on goods in transshipment to St. Kitts. which in turn collects another duty upon arrival (smuggling is commonplace). Jamaica's industries are protectively walled off. will presumably suffer from competition from other islands. The new law will have to eliminate these barriers, create a common market, set common tariffs, provide for negotiating commercial treaties with other nations...
...sooner had the A.M.A. issued the ominous warning than its timeliness was grimly proved. Warning: there is growing danger of in-hospital epidemics caused by Staphylococcus aureus, a common germ some of whose strains are resistant to most antibiotics (TIME, March 24). Proof: the belatedly disclosed deaths since Dec. 1 of 16 babies in Houston's Jefferson Davis Hospital (run by the city and Harris County). So far this year, 81 babies were infected; in February alone, 21 mothers also caught the infection...
...genie come out. No audience, no magic; and the cold glass eye of the camera is worse than no audience to an exquisite empathist like Kaye. But even in the worst of his pictures-and Merry Andrew is considerably better than that-Comedian Kaye exhibits the common trait of the greatest clowns, who are not funny because of what they do but because of what they...
...World War II hero and an Army regular, is assigned to the company, the captain quickly melts into the background. The men get on the ball, and the sergeant, half hated, half respected, is insistently felt as a ruthless, unbending presence who is long on Army regulations, short on common humanity. Sadly enough for Tom Swanson. the middle-aged sergeant takes a shine to him. He installs him as company clerk, breaks up his lyrical love affair with a charming French girl, and begins an unconscious homosexual pursuit. Each night he takes the boy off to village bars until their...