Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luncheon meeting of the upper-crust Pilgrims Society at the Savoy, got a nice introduction from the Pilgrims' Toastmaster Lord Birkett as "a product of that great American tradition that the village boy can rise to high office, [and] has invested the office of Vice President with higher importance and greater prestige than it has ever enjoyed." Nixon in turn made his tribute to Britain: "Every time an American citizen acts politically within the democratic context, we reflect our English heritage." That said, he turned to a basic principle of the Anglo-American alliance-collective security-that is popular...
...Augusta to report on the possibilities of wringing water out of the defense budget. After the meeting McElroy told newsmen that it will be "pretty rough'' to keep 1960 spending at the fiscal-1959 level. But when asked whether 1960's total would be $2 billion higher than 1959's, he recoiled: "Oh, no." How about $1 billion higher? "I just don't know," said McElroy. His final word before boarding his plane back to Washington: "economy" is being considered as well as "security," but "the first by no means takes precedence over the second...
...lies in the fact that Benson's scheme removes all uncertainty about what a farmer can get for his corn, no matter how big the crop. The price: $1.12 to $1.15 per bu., about 12? lower than high supports would have been, but 6? to 9? per bu. higher than the present price peg for noncompliance corn. At Benson's price, efficient growers can make good money on all the well-fertilized hybrids that their big tractors can cultivate...
...students elementary languages. There are some schools which have no language program at all whereas others give their pupils only an antiquated start in French or Spanish and see them come to grief in the College Board Exams. Until the secondary schools improve their language teaching to a far higher extent or until colleges stiffen their admissions policy, it will be the latter's function to teach a good percentage of their students a foreign language...
Rogers, who vehemently opposes the Cornell method of learning languages (i.e. machines, separation from culture), says that "We must reward the younger men. They must have an in- terest in the country whose language they are teaching." When these men move on to higher levels, Rogers advocates a system of rotation, whereby every faculty member, regardless of rank, will be required to teach an elementary course for a specific amount of time. The quality of teaching would then be raised and the teaching fellows would not be mired in the lower levels...