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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calling this year's total of $6,500 a "distinct record," Mack attributed the gain to student generosity resulting from a "more active year on the part of the Council and excellent publicity...
...Navy reports 91 entering members of the class of '58, a slight gain over the 88 from...
...Early next year, the U.S. will call an international conference of nuclear physicists. All interested countries, including the U.S.S..R., will be invited. Strauss did not say how Russian physicists would gain entrance to the U.S. Many scientists from friendly countries have been excluded under the McCarran (immigration) Act because of contacts recent or remote with Communism...
...response to "the resurgence of religious feeling and practice in America today,", the Ideal Toy Co. is putting on sale a kneejointed doll that can be made to "kneel in a praying position." <| Religious and economic booms in the postwar U.S. have brought no material gain to clergymen, the National Council of the Churches of Christ reports. Congregational ministers now average $3,313 a year (up from $1,769 in 1939) and United Presbyterian ministers $3,709 (up from $1,979). Allowing for inflation, says the council, the raises leave the ministers a few dollars a month behind where they...
...that anything printed in color is an accurate copy" are apt to be sadly misled about the very nature of painting. But laymen and scholars alike, who study what originals they can as well as reproductions, and who recognize reproductions simply as useful approximations of the original paintings, can gain from them a breadth of art knowledge and understanding never before possible...