Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waiting List. Though they were carefully conditioned by Arab propaganda to believe that they were suffering wretchedly at the hands of "Imperialists and Zionists" the refugees gradually found themselves better off materially than they had been at home. They have a higher daily caloric ration (1,500-1.600) than some of the fellahin in Nasser's Egypt, better health and sanitation services than they had ever known in Palestine. UNRWA provides extra rations for pregnant and nursing women, midday meals and vitamin pills for children. UNRWA's education facilities are making the refugees an intellectual elite among Arabs...
...Harsh Fact. "The trouble is," said former President Herbert Hoover in Manhattan, "that we are turning out annually from our institutions of higher education perhaps fewer than half as many scientists and engineers as we did seven years ago. The greatest enemy of all mankind, the Communists, are turning out twice or possibly three times as many as we do. Our higher institutions of learning have the capacity to train the recruits we need. The harsh fact is that the high schools are not preparing youngsters for the entrance requirements which must be maintained by our institutions training scientists...
Died. Frederick Sullens, 80, fire-eating editor (for the last 52 years) of Mississippi's Jackson Daily News, bushy-browed old-style columnist (The Low Down on the Higher Ups) and prying reporter ("I may be a lousy editor, but I can still do a damn good job of reporting"), who was always ready to back up his razor-edged wit and deadly personal insult with well-worn fists; of cancer; in Jackson, Miss. Though he was a lifelong foe of Negro-baiters ("hysterical rabble-rousers and spouting demagogues"), and scathingly attacked the late Senator Theodore Bilbo, Representative John...
Information on the density of the upper atmosphere obtained from observations of the Russian satellites will lead the United States to launch its own satellite higher than was originally planned, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory announced yesterday...
...will therefore have to launch its satellite about 30 miles higher than originally planned to confront the same atmospheric drag, according to Whipple. The data about the air was obtained through a combination of radio and optical observations...