Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British vaccine supplies for inoculation of all children under 15 and expectant mothers. The policy reversal came too late to do anything about this year's grim polio season in Britain: 3,732 cases reported through August v. 2,077 for the same period last year. In sharp contrast to this picture are the U.S.'s hopeful polio figures: 3,887 cases through August v. 8,905 last year...
...Style means good taste. One example of common bad taste is making a double bed too feminine. A bed isn't only a place for voluptuousness. It is a place where you want to sleep soundly, heavily, in contrast with delicacy. It is the place where at times you will be sick, when you want comfort, not refinement. It is the place where you will want to die. when you want majesty, not daintiness. What woman worthy of the name wants to see her man sleep in lace...
...other buildings and its majestic mountain backdrop. The solution is an ingenious example of contemporary Air Force Gothic. Rising tall and bright in its sheath of man-made aluminum against the surrounding peaks of the Rockies, the chapel stands in solitary splendor, its 19 spires soaring in contrast above the flat-roofed buildings spread out on the campus. It is built on two levels, has three naves. On the lower level rear is the Jewish section, seating 100; at the front the Catholic section, seating 500; on top the 900-seat Protestant section...
Circus Manager. To help him in the task of reconstruction, Alfried Krupp picked a deputy in startling contrast to himself and his tradition. "When I came back from prison," says he, "we had become a machinery and trading company, deprived of our traditional steelmaking role. We needed new blood, a new approach, a fresh policy. I decided we should start looking for a man who did not know steel." Krupp found his man in 40-year-old Berthold Beitz, the breezy general director of the Iduna-Germania Insurance Co., who had boosted his company from 16th to third place...
...Firearms. José Yulo's Liberal Party convention was no competition for the Nacionalistas in the Dewey Boulevard fleshpots. José Yulo wanted it that way, to contrast his party and Carlos Garcia's, since the Liberal Party is still trying to live down its reputation for corruption during the Quirino administration. Yulo gave one sedate, nonalcoholic tea to receive the delegates, 95% already pledged to him. There were no bosomy Yulo boosters and no peso sandwiches, but a fair number of Liberals obediently checked their firearms at the door...