Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common knowledge that when anything of a finer nature, or loftier thoughts, is presented to a small-souled person it is met with hostility and contempt. Your Dec. 30 reviewer of Candles in the Sun is no exception. He can no more understand theosophy, the works of Annie Besant and Krishnamurti, than a primitive man could understand Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays. As for the author of the book, the less said about her the better...
Last week the Foreign Ministers of "Little Europe" met in Paris to elect officers for the Common Market and Euratom. They also chose directors for two other six-nation agencies, the thriving Coal and Steel Community and the new billion-dollar European Investment Bank. But they could not settle on a single city for their capital. Luxembourg's white-mustached old Premier and Foreign Minister Joseph Bech put up such a stubborn fight to keep the European Coal and Steel Community headquarters (and its $6,000,000 yearly payroll) for his tiny country that the founding fathers could only...
...mystery traveler's identity"-but volunteered no hints as to the identity of its mysterious news informants. Turning to such tried-and-true sources as Estes Kefauver and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Fred Whipple (who, said A.P., "expressed no surprise"), the A.P.-in common with big-city newspapers-kept the astronaut aloft with scientific and political punditry...
...sudden wealth of unions. Since 1949, labor's net worth has quadrupled to $12 billion, and dues alone from nearly 18 million members are adding $592 million a year. Unions are now rich enough to own banks and insurance companies, finance housing and put millions in bonds and common stocks. The bulk of their worth is in welfare and pension funds. They now cover 75 million Americans and total about $51 billion. But management controls 90% of the funds, which are growing by $7 billion a year, mainly through $5 billion contributed by employers. Only $8.6 billion...
...murmuring: "My exit is the result of too many entrees." He was a wit; once he greeted a quack doctor with "a very low bow" and the words: "I hope, sir, that you will live longer than your patients." He tempered the generosity of a prince with a biting common sense-as in his answer to a request for money for a friend's tombstone: "I lent Maginn ?500 in his life time and he paid me ?20 back. I think I have done enough in giving him bread-let other philanthropists give him a stone...