Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing alone, Karamanlis last week won Greece's most important election since 1946. His National Radical Union took at least 155 seats out of 300; later returns may bring his majority over the opposition Democratic Union to 22 seats. The Democratic Union actually polled a higher popular vote-49.8% to Karamanlis' 45.8%-but it failed, through the complicated workings of the electoral law, to translate its advantage into seats...
Karamanlis won his victory without any noticeable help from British or American diplomacy. The opposition centered its fire on Greece's "humiliation" over Cyprus, needled Karamanlis unmercifully for "giving in to the British," for his "servility" to the U.S. Pointing to the Democratic Union's higher popular vote, Communist propagandists from Moscow to Budapest crowed that a majority of Greeks had "repudiated" Karamanlis' pro-Western government...
...most college presidents, the topic under discussion-industrial and foundation aid to higher education-would have been a heartening one. But the more President K. Duane Hurley of West Virginia's little (306 full-time students) Salem College heard at the meeting of fellow presidents one day last summer, the more depressed he became. "For two days," said he, "I listened to reports about trie Ford Foundation and what it expected to do, about the National Merit Scholarship program, the Sears Roebuck scholarship plan and similar ones." Yet for all these benefactions, Salem remained completely ineligible. Reason: like...
...week. But the new law will hit Southern industry hard: of the South's 780,000 textile workers, 34% earn less than $1 hourly; of its 400,000 furniture workers and lumbermen, 67% are paid less than the new minimum. Some prices will go up to cover the higher wage costs, and some marginal operators may be forced out of business...
Free public education is supposed to locate the able students, and by rewarding them with high academic achievement, channel them into higher education and bring them to responsible positions. Unfortunately, this process too often fails, because many students, especially those from uneducated or lower class families, do not show their abilities in the classroom...