Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Hong Kong. One was born and educated in Moscow, where he became a law professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute before the Bolshevik revolution forced him to flee to France, and eventually to the U.S. As for formal education, some 60% of TIME'S editors hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent, and six, a master's. Fifteen of our editors went to Harvard, seven to Princeton and six to Yale. Five went to Columbia University and two each to the University of Chicago, the University of Missouri, the University of Colorado, New York University...
...public-works program has not even reached the discussion stage. The housing program was proposed in April, sent to committee, and has not been heard of since. Neither has the program for new school buildings. Communists or fellow travelers, who hold more than a third of the seats in Parliament, sabotage and delay. Quarreling allies and vigorous enemies are not Scelba's only handicaps. There is also the problem of his own Christian Democratic Party...
...thousands of Brazilians who found government hospitals and free-care clinics in Rio closed to them last week. Some 600 government doctors were on strike. The doctors' complaint: Brazil's President Joao Cafe Filho, determined to hold down government spending and stop runaway inflation, had vetoed a bill that would have upped minimum salaries of all government employees holding university degrees (TIME...
...World-Telegram and Sun has followed the trend toward less news, more entertainment. But the paper has lost the verve and excitement of the old World without even keeping the stodgy completeness of the Sun. The Telly (circ. 531,469) has been able to hold only one-third of the readers it took over when it merged with the Sun in 1950. Its ads have declined, and its loss this year is estimated to be more than...
Somewhere a little old lady named Virginia sits reading her newspaper in a rocking chair. Sometimes the headlines in the papers frighten here, and this is one of those times. DOCTOR SAM TELLS OF TUSSLE; REDS HOLD INNOCENT SOLDIERS; HEMINGWAY RECOVERS FROM CRASH WOUNDS, they say. Virginia lowers her spectacles and quivers. She had always thought there was a Santa Claus, ever since that nice editor answered here letter, but maybe...