Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of jet and rocket power, aviation's headline-getters usually fly worlds faster, farther and higher than such lonesome greats of the olden days as Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post and Lindbergh. But the airman who comes closest to matching the oldtime sense of personal challenge and adventure in the flying business is the record-seeking light-plane pilot. Last week Minnesota-born Max Conrad, 57, bumped onto the runway at El Paso's International Airport after soloing a little Piper Comanche a nonstop 6,911 miles across the Atlantic from Casablanca...
...straight-shooting Weidman-Abbott book weaves deftly in and out of the song numbers, and the lower they descend for their theme, the higher they mount in effectiveness. The boys in the back room are amusingly kidded in a lilting Politics and Poker; graft is hilariously drubbed in a dittylike Little Tin Box. Even more zipful are a pair of production numbers, a rousing electioneering street dance, and a fine 1920s high-kicking chorus line...
Smartening Up Mummy. To become teachers, most of the 29 men gave up higher-paying jobs. Ernest Knight, 43, has six children, earned $2,800 a year as a textile salesman. His income for the next two years will be $588, and he has sold his car to help squeak by ("I know I've made the right decision"). A father of two, David Miller, 37, not only sold his grocery store, but got his wife to attend college as well. "We're budgeted to the last penny," says he. "Our kids will get threepenny ice-cream cones...
...boom has given the 10 million Australians a standard of living (per capita income: $1,232) that ranks with that of the top nations outside the U.S., and is higher than Great Britain's. Australians eat more meat (nearly 300 Ibs. annually), consume more fruit, cereals and sugar than either Americans or Britons. Except for the U.S. and Canada, they own more motor vehicles (244 for every 1,000 people), enjoy more TV sets (70 for every 1,000) and telephones (200 per 1,000) than almost any other nation. All this Australia gets from a burgeoning industry...
Success in meeting the goal, which is $3,000 higher than last year's, will depend on the effectiveness of entry solicitors in contacting students and on the awareness of the student body that ten dollars is the gift expected and requested, Howard J. Phillips '62, co-chairman of the campaign, emphasized last night...