Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memory of the last fiasco is not always so clear as his vision of the next election. In January, after potato prices had slumped about 60% in a year. Congress passed a new law permitting "limited" supports. Then producers and their Senators (chiefly Idaho's Republican Herman Welker and Maine's Republican Margaret Chase Smith) began to urge the Department of Agriculture to have another helping of potatoes. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson firmly declined, suggested that growers cut production. But as prices fell and pressure mounted, Benson yielded. Last week he announced that the Department will...
...specimen bottle and a researcher misread it as "Saukett." In this form it is now perpetuated, beyond hope of correction, in countless scientific publications. -Hence the name, poliomyelitis-literally, inflammation of the grey marrow (part of the spinal cord). -Both his brothers chose careers on the borders of medicine. Herman. 34, is a veterinarian in Mars, Pa. Lee, 27, is a candidate for a Ph.D...
Depreciating talk of violence in the South should the Supreme Court bar segregation in schools, he labeled as "political talk" the threats of Governor Herman Talmadge of South Carolina that he would abolish the public school system in such a case...
...imaginative staging gives new life to an idea that is certainly common enough. Phelps' theme is that man's greatest moments, the instants of highest creativity or most meaningful experience, are wholly out of time. Two women attend an art show and see a picture showing Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Melville's wife. The two authors step from the picture--Melville in anguish over a passage of Moby Dick and Hawthorne trying to capture an image. As a ticking clock stops and time stands still, both men are inspired...
STEWART W. HERMAN National Lutheran Council...