Word: dones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bechuanaland, both moving gradually toward independence, come thousands of workers each year, heading for South Africa's gold mines and carrying, along with their cardboard suitcases, dangerous new ideas about African rights. To the approving cries of "Hoor! Hoor!" (Hear! Hear!), Verwoerd warned that something must be done, and that multiracial political development was no answer...
...member of Garcia's own Nacionalista Party charged that 16 of the President's intimates, including his son-in-law and two of his brothers, had engaged in large-scale influence peddling. If General Vargas used the army to enforce an honest election-as he had done in two previous elections-the Nacionalista Party's prospects might be dimmer...
British Author Aldous (Brave New World Revisited) Huxley, 64, journeyed from his California home to Manhattan, collected $1,000 and a medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "having done the best work of our time in . . . the novel of ideas." In his acceptance speech Huxley modestly disclaimed genius, alluding to an observation by short-necked Honore de Balzac that most men of genius have short necks. Duly noting his own long neck, lanky Novelist Huxley asserted: "Genius, after all, is an alliance of head with heart, and the shorter the neck, the closer that alliance...
Blood typing is not difficult if done carefully, and Dr. Moore found that most mismatched transfusions were caused not by technical errors but by simple human failures-mixing up specimen tubes, mislabeling and similar clerical errors. Worst of all, Dr. Moore charged that in more than half the cases with fatal reactions, the transfusion was not necessary or even desirable. Many physicians, he suggests, give one bottle to be on the safe side. One bottle is rarely, if ever, enough to do any good-but may easily be enough to do harm...
Fish-Bowl Policy. The fund that has done more than any other to put shares in the household sugar bowl is Massachusetts Investors Trust, oldest and big gest of the mutual funds and the one that set the pattern for all the rest. M.I.T is a child of Boston, which has raised the handling of O.P.M. (other people's money) to the status of a fine art. The art was born of an 1830 court decision, the "Prudent Man Rule." In settling a suit charging a trustee with negligence in investing in common stocks, the judge held that...