Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes. Chief among the determined were aging (67), Cockney-born Herbert Morrison, deputy leader and presumed heir to Clement Attlee, and brightly ambitious Hugh Gaitskell, the relatively young (48) and clever former economics professor who was Labor's last Chancellor of the Exchequer and aspires to be something higher. Troublemaker Bevan must go, they argued, for the good of the party...
...save pilots of jet planes that falter on take-off or are disabled by enemy fire during low-flying missions, the Martin-Baker Aircraft Co., Ltd. of Higher Denham, England, has developed a quick-acting parachute that works even when an airplane is still running on the ground. When the pilot triggers the mechanism, lots of things happen fast. An explosive cartridge blows the canopy off and tosses seat, pilot and all 80 feet in the air. Then an automatically timed gun opens small parachutes that steady the tumbling seat. An instant later, the timing mechanism opens the main parachute...
Most ancient civilizations start from simple beginnings, e.g., those of Mesopotamia. In the lowest levels of their long-inhabited sites are found the crude implements of near-savages. Then, little by little, the culture improves. The people build better homes and temples; they learn higher crafts. At last they develop a written language and begin recording their history for archaeologists to read. Some of the new culture elements come from foreign contacts, but the origin of each imported item can generally be traced...
...Manhattan this week, the Ford Foundation announced one of the largest single private grants to higher education in U.S. history: $50 million to help selected privately run colleges and universities boost faculty salaries. Recipients of the Ford grants (still unnamed) will be asked to supplement the gifts with funds raised from other sources...
...week, as winterbound families started planning their annual vacation motorcade, some 53,000 motels, doing a $1.5 billion annual business, dotted the roads from Maine to California. Of the total, 4,000 were built last year alone. Reasons for the big rise are not hard to find: increased population, higher auto sales, more touring, steady prosperity. But the biggest reason is the fact that U.S. motels are offering luxuries that put most hotels-and a good many resorts-to shame...