Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think the embattled constituents of Representative Carter and his son will consider even the son's announced reduced keep-home pay as a sort of farm subsidy...
School at Home...
...your account [March 2] of the home school provided for Tommy Kral by his parents Otto and Mary, it occurs to me that their determination to give adequate training to children who meet no real challenge in our public school systems could well be rewarded with something better than court action. Let's have a movement to change our educational laws so that children educated at home would be required to pass examinations provided by the public school system. This would eliminate the undesirable leveling of above average children and relieve public school overcrowding...
...atmosphere where business is heavily taxed, Wililams' opponents have claimed that his policies brought on the present situation by discouraging new investment, but there is little question that their criticism of his welfare-at-any-cost policies are much closer to home. In the midst of the attempts to pay current expenses, Williams was reported to be planning a budget increase of $150 million for fiscal 1960. Observers seem to think that he will succeed in bailing out the current debts through borrowing against trust funds, but it does not seem likely that he will get his increase. The state...
...real life," Tom Lehrer is a fairly tall, modest man who looks about twenty-five, and is mild-mannered enough to bring home to Mother. His apartment on Sparks St. is not arty, just a little crowded. Books and records are stacked around the room and on the mantelpiece stands bric-a-brac suggestive of his work: a rubber "dead hand" (I Hold Your Hand in Mine), a skeleton, a model of the "World Tree" in which he has stuck a dustmop, and a flowery piece of crockery labeled "Opium" (The Old Dope Peddler). He has a much pleasanter voice...