Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they just picked him up and brought him along. The years passed and he grew up, and, boy, he grew up into one mean man. One day his owner came to him and said: 'You're so evil I got to get rid of you. But I haven't the heart to sell you or give you to another man. So I'll tell you what I'll do: if you'll get out of the town and county and state, I'll give you your freedom.' Well, my great-grandfather never...
...state has already made an impressive start toward helping its superior students. West Hartford's Alfred Plant Junior High School began an experimental program for them in 1950. At Hillhouse High School in New Haven, exceptionally bright students were put to work handling primary source material for a civic commemoration. Programs have also been set up in Darien, Fairfield, Norwalk, Cheshire, Stratford. Almost all Connecticut schools, in varying degrees, have begun to give special attention to superior students...
...general, employees put more faith in what they read in company publications than they do in union papers. And publications which have dropped the social notes in favor of stories on corporate problems have found that their readership has jumped. Concludes one company president: "In many companies, we just haven't given employees a chance to hear both sides of the question. It's about time we started...
HAROLD T. MERYMAN, M.D. Sloane Physics Laboratory Yale University New Haven, Conn...
...object to fingerprinting-a bureaucratic procedure that strikes Europeans as degrading. Why? Because he himself had submitted to fingerprinting every year to get a permit for his .38-cal. Smith & Wesson, serial number 242332. "What do you use a revolver for?" gasped one of the reporters. "Fortunately, I haven't had to use it at all," replied John Foster Dulles. He explained that Costa Rica's President (1917-19) Federico Tinoco had given him the pistol in 1917, when Dulles was traveling on horseback through the jungles of Central America. It turned out that Dulles on this ride...