Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boris Chaliapin, in his cover picture of Marilyn, capture that wistful appeal for something higher than physical attraction? And how could you give us the full story of her life with such utter frankness without degrading her, but making those who have made profit out of her, and all the rest of us, accord her the respect for which she now yearns as the lines of maturity begin to show around eyes and neck. May the girl on the calendar raise our sights to higher ideals for our country's women...
...more Americans choose the military for a career? The most important reason is the inability of the armed forces to match private industry's two brightest attractions: higher pay and better living conditions, especially for family men. To meet the problem, Burgess offered a couple of realistic solutions: require longer service but offer larger re-enlistment bonuses to highly skilled and hard-to-get specialists. Private industry could help, he believes, by undertaking more of its own training programs instead of using the armed forces as a training school...
Personal Life: In 1938 married Lady Patricia Guinness of the wealthy brewing family, and honeymooned in Addis Ababa, which Mussolini's forces had captured. A non-practicing lawyer, he has an income from investments of more than $50,000 a year; his wife's is even higher. A stranger to all sports, he superintends a four-man gardening crew at his Bedfordshire estate, grows flowers in the courtyard of his Belgravia house. Colonials of all creeds, colors and classes stream in to the Lennox-Boyds' frequent house parties...
...Dell'Oro Maini. Dell'Oro proposed nothing more ominous than authorizing any group of citizens to organize a university-a right hitherto reserved to the state-but anticlericals professed to see in the move an opening for the Vatican to build Catholic universities that would dominate Argentine higher education. They demanded Dell'Oro's scalp...
...Federal Republic of Germany has established 60 special scholarships for U.S. graduate students in gratitude for U.S. postwar help. The scholarships, which include tuition and round-trip travel, may apply to any institution of higher education in West Germany or West Berlin. Prerequisite: a knowledge of German...