Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chairs, many other odd pieces of old but usable furniture, all destined for the junk heap. Yet the Senators were ordering $113,000 worth of new equipment. And that $150,000 for new carpeting, requested for no better reason than the fact that Government girls might slip and fall on the tile flooring, struck plain-living Senator Douglas as excessive. He offered to buy the girls rubber heels -from his own pocket...
Brown can scarcely be blamed for yearning. Touted as a do-little attorney general (TIME, Sept. 15) before he swamped Republican William Fife Knowland for Governor last fall, Brown as Governor is doing a lot. He was barely in office before he forwarded a 30-bill liberal plan of action to California's newly Democratic legislature, pointedly marked the bills "by request of Governor Brown." Passed to date: Brown's recommendations for a fair employment practices bill, curbs on installment buying to stop credit rackets, a measure ending California's odd cross-filing primary system...
Hearing insistent rumors that the government will hold elections this fall to fill 21 vacant seats in the Grand National Assembly, Inonu decided to tour...
Last week, returning from a state visit to South Viet Nam, Garcia discovered that in his absence Macapagal and Manahan had got together, agreed to run a coalition slate against Garcia's wallowing Nacionalista regime in the Senate elections this fall. If everything goes well, Liberal-Progressives may merge completely in a year-just in time to wage a fire-breathing presidential campaign against Garcia himself...
...work, financed by a $2 million allotment from the Program for Harvard College, should be completed in time for occupancy by the Class of 1963 next fall. Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative vice-President, said recently that other freshman dormitories will be modernized in the next several years. Stoughton, Matthews, Grays, and Weld are being considered...