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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their money, the Knights got a paper with a daily circulation of 136.302 (146,180 on Sunday), one of the few U.S. dailies with a circulation larger than the population of the city it serves. Earnings in 1954 were about $1,000,000 before taxes, and the paper has a $2,000,000 cash surplus in the till...
...limits were imposed, according to the Administration, in an effort to pry similar restrictions off the Russians. But there are a few disparities involved. One of them is that a much larger area of the Soviet Union is closed to Americans who would travel there, and has been almost since this country recognized the USSR in 1933. It is naive to think that Russia values its travel privileges in the United States enough to make serious concessions in its own restrictions. A Russian citizen in this country today has about as much chance of spying on American industry...
Williams, a poet and editor of several anthologies, expressed the hope that his gift would form the basis of a larger collection of Thomas' writings in Houghton...
This year Americans can give more for less. The tax law for 1954 contains three important changes that will enable generous citizens to make larger contributions to church and charity, and Tax Expert Merle H. Miller ticks them off in the Christian Century of Dec. 22. Items...
...angles in squash-at least not quickly enough to make the shots. Squash is a game played on a walled, rectangular court (18½ ft. by 32 ft. in the U.S. game), and all four sides are playing surfaces. The ball is a hard-rubber affair, somewhat larger than a golf ball; the handle of the racket is longer than that of a tennis racket, but the head is smaller. A crack squash player needs stamina and strong wrists; he must be puma-quick on his feet, and know all the angles by experience...