Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calling your readers' attention to "diploma mills" [Oct. 19] was a commendable service. However, the footnote, "Legitimate U.S. correspondence schools belong to the National Home Study Council," is misleading, since it implies that a nonmember is "illegitimate." This is not true. Capitol Radio Engineering Institute, founded in 1927, withdrew from the council several years ago. Yet C.R.E.I, is unique among technical institutes in having both its home-study and residence curricula in advanced electronic engineering technology accredited by the Engineers' Council for Professional Development...
...Senator Allen Ellender. "I'm going to pose with two Senators," cried Theriot. "One may be the next President." With a quick laugh, Symington turned to Ellender. "Congratulations, Allen," he said. Everybody within earshot laughed too, for Missouri's Symington was a long way from home and running for President for all he was worth, on his own special road to the White House...
Feat of Clay. The Symingtons' first home was a two-room apartment in Rochester, N.Y. Stu went to work in an iron foundry owned by his father's brothers. Starting near the bottom, as a chipper and then a moulder, he used to come home black with grime. At night he studied mechanical engineering at the Mechanics Institute, electrical engineering through the International Correspondence School. The year after he got married, Symington borrowed $250,000 from his uncles and started a business of his own, Eastern Clay Products Co., specializing in bonding clay for foundry molds...
...Prime Minister's residence to demand stronger action, and the All-India Students' Congress called for mass demonstrations this week to mark "Throw Back the Aggressors Day"; other youths sought volunteers to man a "Himalayan Border Defense Organization." In London, Indian students inquired about returning home for military conscription. Even many Indian Communists were openly criticizing China's troublemaking...
...commanded by Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, who won the world's admiration in the days of the Korean armistice, when, despite Nehru's displeasure, he scrupulously directed the screening of captured Chinese and North Korean Communist soldiers, during which 21,814 of them refused to go home...