Word: free
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...castigating the television quiz shows for being fixed but it does not appear as if any of the accusers have paused long enough to examine the real substance of the situation which they are viewing with alarm. After all, what the programs basically purported to dispense is entertainment-and free entertainment at that. We do not expect the gospel truth every time we turn on our sets...
...Depression), national purpose cannot always be precisely denned. The President's announced trip to South Asia (see The Presidency) was in a sense national purpose on the move. So, in effect, was Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's attempt to establish a durable world economic policy based on free trade and mutual self-help (TIME, Nov. 9). But there was no clear articulation of purpose. "Our leaders have not been able to give us a sense of direction," said Sylvan Meyer, editor of the Gainesville (Ga.) Times. "They've told us we have to sacrifice luxuries to carry...
...goods. They did so with appropriately pretty speeches. "Equity if not gratitude" requires it, said France's Finance Minister Antoine Pinay. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory launched into a tribute "to the invaluable help that we and all other countries in the free world have received from the U.S. in economic aid during the difficult postwar period...
...heated controversy since last year, when a slash of $100,000 from the athletic budget left six teams penniless. Lacrosse team coach Bruce Munro complained yesterday of his team's plight, claiming that he had been forced to ask friends at Dartmouth and Princeton to board his teams free of charge...
Rain is expected to turn the encounter into a wild, free-swinging scramble from start to finish. With so much at stake, both teams will be going all out--every ball will be played and all shots will be followed...