Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counties), despite campaign charges-never disproved-that his father was involved in shadowy influence-peddling and kickbacks. Works hard to impress Tennesseans with the fact that his administration is based on clean living, honesty, dawn-to-dusk hard work, Christian fellowship, prayer. Principal accomplishments: mental health program, higher teachers' salaries...
...ownership is enough to insure that an industry is run on Socialist lines." Workers in nationalized mines find no greater joy or increased incentive in the knowledge that the mines are theoretically "theirs." Even the fundamental doctrine that Socialism is more efficient than capitalism and hence productive of higher living standards was abandoned. "If increased production is to be the criterion," asked Twentieth Century Socialism, "can we really prove that Socialist policies will be more effective than the capitalist policies which set the pace in the U.S. today?" The Gaitskellites were prepared to accept the theory of a mixed economy...
Schoolmasterish Socialist Guy Mollet has lasted for six months as Premier of France because no one else wants the job of antagonizing the left by fighting the war in Algeria, and antagonizing left, right and center by demanding higher taxes to finance it. Last week Guy Mollet found a way to make some mileage out of his predicament...
...points made him an easy first. Behind him, Navy's Milt Campbell scored 7,555, the Rev. Bob Richards 7,054. For the first time in history, three decathlon competitors had bettered 7,000 points, and U.S. Olympic hopes, already floating in numbers, rose even higher...
Deak figures that the best bargain in New York is in currencies of countries that have no import limits, although their official rates stand much higher than the free rate. Among these are France's franc (which was selling in the U.S. last week at 395 to the dollar, v. 350 in Paris), Bolivia's boliviano (5,5°° ". 190), Argentina's peso. Even where limits exist-as in Spain, Finland, Turkey-tourists can take in the legal amount and still make a saving. Where money is stable and the saving small, travelers still find...