Word: highs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...High-Flown Speeches. Everywhere Rocky went, the shade of Nixon was there to haunt him. So many Nixon supporters turned out for a big dinner at the Hollywood Biltmore that some of Rockefeller's own fans had trouble getting tickets. "Nixon Now" banners and badges bloomed everywhere, and the mere mention of the Vice President's name drew storms of applause. A huge photomural of Dick Nixon's face (flanked by the images of Dwight Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln) stared fixedly down at the challenger. Rockefeller's speeches drew respectful attention, but they were not much...
After graduation from a local junior college, Anderson taught Spanish, history and mathematics at the high school in Burleson for two years while saving money to go to law school. Assigned to coach the football team despite the fact that he had never played football, he bought a couple of books on the game, coached his boys to an undefeated, untied season...
...High Navy brass found out the truth of a remark that former Treasury Secretary Humphrey once made about Anderson: "Don't be misled about him just because he doesn't shout and pound the table the way I do. He can be firm as a rock." Shortly after he took over as boss of the Navy, Anderson overruled a promotion board's decision to pass over abrasive Captain Hyman Rickover, nuclear submarine pioneer, for the second and final time (two failures to win promotion to rear admiral meant automatic retirement). Determined to keep Rickover in the Navy...
...little inflation, the argument runs, is a cheap price to pay for rapid growth. But as Anderson sees it, price stability is the friend of economic growth, not its enemy. What counts, he holds, is "sustainable growth" (a favorite Anderson phrase), which requires capital investment out of savings. "A high rate of saving," he argues, "is indispensable in achieving a high rate of economic growth." And since inflation is the enemy of thrift, it is in the long run the enemy of economic growth...
...only the Great and the Small Temples at Abu Simbel, but a hundred other partially excavated sites in Nubia and the Sudan-temples, forts, chapels, churches, mosques, tombs, prehistoric wall drawings-will be submerged in the 300-mile-long Nubian lake to be created by the building of the High Dam at Aswan. Rivaling Abu Simbel in historical value is the Greco-Roman temple on Philae Island, gradually built un over earlier ruins beginning in the 3rd century B.C. Philae is already flooded five months of the year by the existing dam at Aswan, and when the first stage...