Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most college presidents still feel that they cannot give up federal funds for needy students, however much they might wish to follow the Harvard-Yale principle. Ike voiced sympathy: "I rather deplore that universities have found it necessary to find, for the moment, a narrow dividing line and therefore keep a number of citizens out of taking advantage of the loan provisions that the Federal Government set up." But the President also put his full weight behind a possible compromise at the next session of Congress: repeal of the disclaimer affidavit, retention of the oath of allegiance. "For my part...
...Stanton. "May I interrupt here, Frank?" said Bob Kintner. "At NBC we accept responsibility for what is on the air, too." Not to be outdone, FTC Chairman Earl Kintner (no kin to NBC's Bob) announced: "This commission is determined to take the responsibility to keep the spigots open. We hope there's a trickle down to the stations that make up the industry." As for Mutual, it had already eliminated one offensive word from all ad copy broadcasts on the network. The word: diarrhea...
...time, concluded Dr. Knox, for the medical profession to begin an educational campaign on the harmful effects of excess exposure to sun, and advocate use of preparations to ward off 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...
...that time the big seasonal demand will have ended too. Even more important, the Treasury is planning a sharp reduction in its issues in the first half of 1960, may thus help to ease credit or at least prevent it from becoming tighter. The Federal Reserve would like to keep its present discount rate of 4% in effect even after a settlement, looks for interest rates to stay steady. Bankers do not expect a hike in the prime rate of 5% for some time, think that if it comes at all, it will be small...
This is an angry first novel about the casual maltreatment of the insane in a Midwestern state asylum called Canterbury. The book's anger might be a great deal more effective if Author Telfer, who herself spent six years as a clerk in a state institution, did not keep abandoning the snake pit for the passion...