Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history had ended a dozen years earlier. Today he is Premier and President-elect of France's Fifth Republic and exercises more direct power over his country's affairs than any other democratically chosen leader in the Western world. "His personal prestige," says a British expert on France, "is higher than that of any Frenchman since Napoleon...
...getting an amnesty from the government. "I'm afraid that's out of my competency," replied the Pope. "I don't know what influence I might have in getting the government to grant an amnesty." Then he added: "But I have some influence in a much higher place, and perhaps you might be interested in an indulgence...
There are notable and heroic exceptions. One pastor and his wife, both university graduates, abandoned hope of further academic schooling for their five children rather than submit them to Youth Dedication. All five backed up their parents, are learning manual trades instead. One bishop's son renounced higher education on his own. rather than undergo the pagan ceremony, is now working as an unskilled laborer in a cement plant...
...University and technical-institute entrance will be determined by recommendations from the party, the Young Communist League, trade unions, and other "social organizations." In some branches of higher education students may concentrate on their studies for the first two or three years. But thereafter they must put in regular periods of work in factories, laboratories and the like. The desirability of "Communist morals" and a Marxist-Leninist outlook will be stressed at all educational levels...
...just a barometer of business but the whole weather bureau, 9,000 men were out of work until Cat worked off its big inventory of bulldozers and earth movers. But at the same time, South Dakota's farmers were so thick in clover that tax receipts ran 10% higher and the department stores of Cedar Rapids, Iowa were 4.5% ahead of last year. In the South, where new industry was moving in 50% faster than last year, most of what was known about the recession was what the people read in the news dispatches from the North. Says Southern...