Word: fall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going along part way after another long balk, the House voted to take off the 3.26% ceiling on savings-bond interest rates. But Congress' failure to lift the interest ceilings on other long-range U.S. Treasury bonds, the White House hinted, might call for a special session this fall. The President's surprisingly successful stand on legislative matters has thoroughly rocked Democratic leaders accustomed to using their huge majorities for give-a-little-take-a-lot compromises with the White House...
Bonsai's strategy is the same that he used effectively in 1956 as ambassador to Colombia to show his coolness toward then-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla: letting the snubs fall on a mere charge d'affaires. Just as Castro learned Bonsai's plans, a Washington News editorial reprinted in Havana drove home the message: "There is a point where patient tolerance becomes obsequious humility...
...visit from Russia's Khrushchev, Eisenhower was hardly likely to spread out his cards to please newsmen-and let the Russians count the pips. Even so, British newsmen built up tall hopes for high headlines. And when they were disappointed, they turned with fury on the handiest fall guy: Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty...
...notably public schools. Among besieged educators, he was well known (and trusted) long before he became U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to West Germany (1953-57). Among plain citizens he has won towering respect since The American High School Today (McGraw-Hill; $1) was published early this year. This fall Conant embarks on a second study: the junior high school. Nobody has already done more to convince Americans that high schools can improve-"with no radical change...
...years,'' said a fund executive, "but we're getting used to this sort of thing." This "sort of thing" was such a rush to buy shares in British corporations that the Financial Times's share index soared to 259.7, up from 188.1 last fall. Many a broker grumbled that the invasion of new, little investors was forcing prices so high that yields for longtime investors were being sharply...