Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still gets a U.S. subsidy ($550,000 in the first half of 1957), may have to ask for more. Pan American's Latin American division, which in 1956 went off a subsidy that had been averaging $11 million a year, and Panagra, which went off subsidy at the end of 1954, may have to appeal again for aid from...
...Shah, arrived in Manhattan aboard the liner Constitution, hoping for privacy, found instead some 125 press and TV reporters at dockside to welcome her. With eager local newsmen breathlessly reporting every other step, the shapely princess shopped on Fifth Avenue, dined at East Side nightspots, at week's end sailed off for some Bermuda sun-and probably some Bermuda privacy as well...
...sterner courses in English, math and physics, biology and chemistry, leading to college admission with advanced standing. So far the students have taken everything thrown at them; last fall a tenth-grade biology class was fed a hard, one-year biology course in one semester, and at the end, most of the experimental group rated above 95 on a New York State Regents exam. This semester, class members are doing independent research, prowling into such arcane matters as an attempt to find whether frog blood can be grouped in types, as human blood...
...most spiritually needy cities in the country," he said last week. "It has three times the suicide rate of any other major city in the country. It ranks high in alcoholism and in the consumption of alcohol. One out of two of its marriages end in divorce, which is a much higher rate than the national average. There are only 40,000 Protestants* in San Francisco [pop. 814,000], and it has probably the lowest church attendance of any major city...
...Smith's amiable hyperbole was borne out by the remorseless arithmetic of the score card. The looming left-field screen that was supposed to turn Memorial Coliseum into a big-league ballpark (TIME, April 28) had become the biggest boon to batters since the rabbit ball. At the end of eight home games, 26 homers had got lost on the far side of the screen only 250 ft. away...