Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grinnell, Reed, Sarah Lawrence, St. John's (Maryland), Wilmington-withdrew. Others continued accepting money under protest, hoping that Congress would change the law. Last summer Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy tried to repeal the loyalty clause, but his bill was rejected 49-42. Future bills also face North Carolina's Democrat Graham A. Barden ("I have been signing allegiance to America ever since I was a Boy Scout"), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. Having "bared my chest to the enemy," Barden aims to block any repeal "with every energy that...
What makes Hallmark's size all the more impressive is that it comes in a field that, for all the bunnies and babies and Santas smiling up from its cheery face, is as ruggedly competitive as any business in the U.S. With some 290 firms turning out 5 billion cards each year, for every event from the cradle to the grave, a special kind of genius is needed to grab off about 30% of a $288 million market. Hallmark's boss abundantly has that genius...
Gathering in Canberra last week to celebrate their tenth year in office, the leaders of Australia's Liberal Party looked upon their nation's economic progress with warm and prideful eye. Said Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies: "The whole face of the land is being changed. No other country of comparable size or population in the world is so busy building its future." On the same day, a crowd of 1,400 in Sydney watched the opening of a $3,300,000 plywood factory spreading over 14½ acres of onetime swampland; McCulloch Motors Corp. of Los Angeles...
...face of these affronts to the honor of human reason, Russell looks wistfully at the philosophers of the Grecian archipelago of 2,500 years ago. Philosophy, says Russell, must continue to deal with "impractical" questions, such as the meaning of life ("if indeed it have any at all"), which few boys, fewer men, and-on the record-no women have ever worried about for very long...
...rebuke, America the Vincible offers unflattering answers to these and other significant questions. Author Emmet John Hughes, chief of correspondents in Time Inc.'s Foreign News Service, and sometime (1952 campaign, 1953, and 1956 campaign) speechwriter for Dwight Eisenhower, clearly hopes to get his fellow citizens to face the errors of the past so that they may grapple more knowingly with the realities of the future. Paradoxically, the book's existence seems to refute some of its charges. If the great debate on America's international aims had sunk to "a stammering of scarcely sensible noises...