Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although attendance in the nation's journalism schools is down to 11,000 students, a 40% drop since the high of 1948, Missouri still has plenty of applicants. Some 300 students are majoring in such subjects as news-editorial, radiotelevision, and weekly and small-daily publishing. Since most of its graduates go to work for small dailies or weeklies-fully 30% stay in the state-the school offers noncredit courses in backshop work. Editors have long since been shown by Missouri; the graduating class annually has four times as many job offers as members...
Medical students with normal blood patterns were fed the cottonseed oil diet from the clinic's kitchens for three weeks, and showed consistent drops in their circulating cholesterol-a clue as to whether the system is being overloaded with fat. Patients with atherosclerosis-some with diabetes or high blood pressure, and some who had already had heart attacks-were kept on the diet for as long as eight months, usually with home cooking. In every case their abnormally high cholesterol levels showed a gratifying drop...
...land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Avoiding the tricky camera shifts and closeups that most directors try when televising ballet, Director Ralph Nelson kept the episodes sharp, the camera steady. Result: an overall sense of gaiety and space. High point: Allegra Kent, crisp and crystalline as Dew Drop...
...contract negotiations to win an extra 8? an hour for them. All of these trends, says the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Economic Review, "are producing a virtual revolution in industrial life. These changes are bound to place unions in a less friendly environment." If their membership continues to drop in relation to the total work force, unions may well find that they can count on less public sympathy for strikes, less power at the polls, and more demands for laws to prevent fewer and fewer workers from throwing more and more out of work...
Time to Digest. In the sense that the drop was the fastest and deepest, the recession was the worst since World War II. The gross national product lost $19.8 billion in six months. It was also the most carefully reported, closely analyzed and best understood of the three postwar recessions. Everyone knew the basic causes: businessmen, expanding at fantastic rates ever since World War II, had to slow down; the economy needed time to sit back and digest all the new capacity. Plant expansion, roaring along at the rate of $37.8 billion in 1957, dropped to $29.6 billion...