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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides the broader scholarship program, Furcolo also requested the expansion of state higher-education facilities and the establishment of state medical, dental, and nursing schools...

Author: By David B. Burnham, | Title: Furcolo Calls For State Aid To Education | 1/15/1957 | See Source »

...painproof individuals sometimes have a poor sense of smell or taste, but their skins are anatomically normal, with the usual number of nerve endings. They feel the pinpricks or burns and can tell where they are located, but they do not react-perhaps because of an abnormality in the higher centers of the brain. In some, the indifference to pain seems to have worn off somewhat in later life. Strangely, there is still no consistent evidence as to whether these individuals react to pleasurable sensations, such as "cozy warmth or coolness, or caressing or soothing touches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain Puzzle | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

Last week the Pope granted a special audience to "Miss Ideal Woman" of Italy, 18-year-old Miss Maria Paola Carletti, winner of a beauty contest that earned this unique papal approval by rating cultural, moral and housekeeping gifts higher than mere physical beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Universal Pope | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...Sunday at 8 p.m. They made the rating seem even more potent than it really is-and believed the illusion themselves. Since NBC began trailing in the ratings, it has sensibly (if belatedly) dropped the habit of regularly publicizing the figures, but the habit clings where the ratings are higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Only Wheel in Town | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...response to a New York Times editorial of Jan. 7 which discussed the tendency of Series "E" government bonds holders to cash in their bonds, or fail to buy them in sufficient quantities, Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, declared that the small investor should receive a higher interest yield. His letter appeared in yesterday's issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harris Asks Better Yield in 'E' Bonds | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

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