Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Higher Spending. Despite the hazards the candidate picked up steam as he traveled. In Kennewick, Wash. he lashed out at the Republican claim of curbing inflation and restoring economic stability to the country. "Which arrested inflation most-the Truman Administration, which reduced the national debt $12 billion in six years," he asked, "or the Eisenhower Administration, which has increased it $12 billion in three years? Should they boast about reducing expenditures when nondefense spending under Eisenhower is higher than at any time under Truman and the total cuts have been at the expense of national defense...
...case in British royal family matters, the gossip got an added fillip from a big play in New York's tabloid Daily News, which quoted unnamed "sources close to the royal household." London's own Woman's Sunday Mirror caught the ball and tossed it even higher, with a report that "priests in Rome are now taking part in three special days of prayer for the conversion of the Princess to the Roman Catholic faith." The Mirror went on to quote "an important Vatican official" as saying that Margaret "has long been a Catholic at heart...
...Department of City Planning and Landscape Architecture began work on a more far-reaching approach: an analysis of the University as a sociological and economic institution. Urban Renewal is only one phase of this project, which aims at analyzing problems ranging form the economic raison d'etre of higher education to housing married students and faculty members in Cambridge...
...student body be made, in terms of married versus non-married students, or in terms of the demand for different kinds of housing? These considerations must also include the possibility of depression or inflation and the effect of the standard of living on both the scale and demand for higher education...
...relationship of higher education to industry is a field as yet largely unexplored. The possible changes in the composition of the student body as industrial concerns demand more education are clear. The growing dependence on industrial funds is also obvious. But what about industrial demands for more specialized technical training, especially in fields which are now virtually non-existent--automation, nucleonics, and solar energy...