Word: highest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court, the highest in the state, has taken no action as yet upon the Corporation's reply. Warren F. Farr, an attorney for the University, feels that the next step will be an informal hearing before a court-appointed master...
...dark screen the words appear: "A G-String Enterprise." Called Pull My Daisy, the film is written and narrated by Jack Kerouac, the least dreary of the Beat writers. The cast is drawn from the highest level of Beat society; Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky all play themselves. As a result, the first pure-Beat movie gives an authentic impression of beatnik habits and tastes...
...both premature aging of the skin and cancer. Blondes, he suggested, can keep that schoolgirl complexion longer if they use powder and makeup bases with built-in chemical sun screens. It was with no hint of boasting that Dallas' Dr. James B. Howell noted: "Texans have the highest incidence of skin cancer in the population of any state...
...after he became the No. 1 draft choice of the National Football League (selecting team: Los Angeles), Halfback Billy Cannon, 22, Louisiana State's sprinting strongman (6 ft. 1 in., 207 lbs., 100 yds. in 9.4 sec.) completed his sweep of football's two highest honors by winning the Heisman Memorial Trophy as "the outstanding player...
...slight easing had no effect on interest rates. The U.S. Treasury last week sold its 13-week bills at 4.5%, the highest point in history for its shortest-term borrowing, partly because only the week before it had drawn heavily on short-term funds with a $2 billion offer of 320-day bills at 4.86%. Bankers expect even greater pressure when a steel settlement is made and a rush for supplies and postponed expansion exerts new pressure on the money market...