Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleep-or more properly, down on his pad. Then Ginsberg and a bearded friend hit the streets, walked till 6 a.m., talking about their mothers. It was all fried shoes. Like it means nothing. And this week they will do it all over again, by popular demand, at Columbia University in Manhattan...
...pace of U.S. business picks up, so does the demand for money. Last week bankers indicated they expect a rise soon in the discount rate, now 2½%, as well as a corresponding hike in the prime rates. Said Hanover Bank's President R. E. McNeill Jr.: "I would not be surprised to see an increase in the discount rate. There is a high level of business, inventories are down, money is fairly tight, and banks are well invested." With higher rates ahead, U.S. bonds had another sinking spell last week, reached the lowest level in years; many Treasury...
...this academic force. The first is the growing tendency of undergraduate courses to fatten up their reading lists without any clear motive beyond a quest for scholastic respectability. The result of this tendency can be seen most forcibly in the crowds in Lamont, struggling to complete reading assignments which demand too much of both a student's time and capacity. The second change is in the new regulations on Honors study which require of every sophomore a much stiffer tutorial program than had previously existed. Coupled with the failure of the Faculty to devise any attractive non-Honors program...
...Turkey has been shuttling between Athens and Ankara, setting the stage for a meeting in Paris this week between Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu and Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Greece is moving closer to abandoning its cry of enosis (union with Greece) and Turkey its demand for partition, in favor of eventual independence for the island, with rights of the Turkish minority guaranteed...
Mikoyan, appearing on NBC-TV last night, rejected as "impossible" any thought of merging Eastern and Western Berlin into a single free city. But he vigorously renewed Russia's demand that West Berlin alone be converted into a free city, contending this is needed to keep the area from becoming "a possible hotbed of war." The Soviety Deputy Premier is scheduled to leave tomorrow for Moscow to report to Premier Nikita Khrushchev and to get ready for a big Communist party meeting later this month...