Word: equals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which are so commonly accepted as parts of our democracy that they can be taught in the public schools." Samples: "Man is a spiritual being of dignity and worth by virtue of the fact that he has his origin and destiny in God his Creator"; "All men are created equal in that they have equal worth in the sight of God . . ." The program can be accepted or not at the discretion of individual schools. ¶ To the mountain of statistics already amassed on the school population, the U.S. Office of Education added the fact that 11% of the nation...
...conservation programs, more support for the national-park system, more outdoor recreational facilities. At issue: the Democrats advocate more public-power projects and more Government control over the nation's resources; the Republicans believe their development must come through federal-state-local "partnerships," with all interested parties assuming equal responsibility...
...anger of Egypt's Dictator Nasser and the fury of the Cairo press. Both were too busy with the Suez last week, and played down the incident. But Dag Hammarskjold was not looking the other way. He told Israel: "What I said in my [earlier] statement applies with equal strength to these new incidents...
...punditry came not from Chicago but from Washington, where Columnist Walter Lippmann watched the convention on TV. Some of the sidebars ran to outlandish trivia, e.g., the contents of Adlai Stevenson's laundry bag, but some of it reached new levels of excellence. For entertainment, few reporters could equal the New York Herald Tribune's wisecracking Sports Columnist Red Smith, who dealt with the convention like an athletic contest, sprinkled his copy with sports allusions and such gems as his description of Happy Chandler's campaign grin ("A hawg-jowl smile, meaty and succulent, with collard greens...
...businessmen achieve first-class political citizenship? In some states, e.g., Ohio, California, they have formed political organizations on a continuing basis. Individual companies also are gingerly tackling the problem with campaigns to register employees, bipartisan presentation of issues and candidates in forums and house organs. Westinghouse, for example, devotes equal space in its company newspaper to candidates of both parties, prints each party's statements verbatim. Johnson & Johnson, No. 1 U.S. maker of bandages and surgical dressings, has started a nonpartisan political-education program that has prompted 80 employees to hold political office in states where the company...