Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMONG the letters TIME'S editors receive from readers all over the world, there is a batch every now and then from the half-industrial, half suburban city of San Leandro, Calif, (pop. 64,714), 17 miles from San Francisco. The reason, we learned last week, is an attractive schoolmarm named Adele Fridhandler Levine, 30, who teaches the popular world-affairs course at San Leandro High School. Her students' main textbook: TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine...
...Senate Finance Committee approved (11-4) and sent to the floor the unemployment-compensation bill already passed by the House. The bill extends unemployment benefits half again as many weeks as each state allows, provides that the Federal Government be reimbursed for such payments, gives states the option to accept or decline extended payments...
...first hour and a half of the debate, not a single Deputy had the temerity to question this absurdity or to mention De Gaulle. Then, in a blunt speech reproaching De Gaulle for giving "new life and encouragement" to the insurrection, ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France leveled his finger at Pflimlin and cried: "We call upon you to condemn openly those insurgent leaders in Algiers." Pflimlin weakly replied: "I do not intend to disassociate the army from the Republic...
...Junior Singles championships, rowed over the Downstream Course from Weeks Bridge to Magazine Beach a week ago Monday, Bob Bradford finished first in a field of five, about a length and a half ahead of second-placing Mike Adair...
...first production, the Independent Players will present Othello, by William Shakespeare. The play will probably open on October 15 at the Pi Eta Theatre, thus making it the first under-graduate offering of 1958-59. Wolfson said that backers have already invested about half of the necessary money...