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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficulty in obtaining teachers good enough to enable these colleges to gain accreditation will, however, be acute. The low Depression birthrate--disregarding the many discouragements to entering teaching--is enough to insure insufficient teachers to meet the war baby deluge...
Another source of pressure was Vice President Richard Nixon, who figured that he had much to gain from a healthy, united Republican Party in his home state, even though Knowland's election as governor of California might build Knowland into Nixon's rival for the Republican presidential nomination. Working through intermediaries, Nixon sent word to Knight, his old political enemy, that Knight, if he withdrew, could have either 1) near-unanimous party backing for the Senate or 2) a fat Administration appointment...
...taking that leadership towards a universal religion for a world that is becoming scientifically one, Christianity need not replace other religions. Since in their basic concepts-e.g., the idea of dying to gain life, the idea of renunciation as a condition of insight-the great religions are already "fused ... at the top," they can continue to exist within the framework of an overall world view which will "necessarily be Christian in substance." But to achieve leadership, Christianity must first recapture the "spiritual iron" that the East has never lost...
TOURIST BOOM will bring record revenues this year for transatlantic airlines and shipping companies. From June through September, airlines lifted 459,500 passengers across Atlantic, about a 21% gain over same period of last year. During same peak 1957 season, steamships carried a near-capacity 496,000 passengers v. 481,000 in summer of 1956, and this September and October showed a 16% rise over last year...
...extensive than the Russian system. The Soviets have even expressed a desire to purchase some American photographic tracking equipment and have modeled their Moonwatch telescopes closely after the U.S. prototype. The implication is that once the U.S. gets a satellite up, it will be in a better position to gain scientific information from it than the Soviets are with theirs...