Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noticeable all across the nation. Governors of twelve states proposed new taxes this year, and the governors of 29 called for increases in present levies. In New York, personal income taxes were in creased 11% by Democratic Governor Averell Harriman's administration. In Iowa, under Republican Governor Leo Hoegh, the legislature adopted a whole range of tax increases (in sales, use, in come and gasoline levies), adding up to an 8% boost. Nevada became the 32nd state to levy a general sales and use tax (2%); Washington pushed its state sales tax up to the highest...
Black & White Leo. Leo, as the Belgians call it, has tripled its population in the past six years. Its 20,000 whites live apart in a suburb that seems far too big for them. There are broad, empty boulevards and a scattering of modern skyscrapers, but the buildings seem isolated amid the mango palms and yellow-flowered cassia trees where the red-tailed parrots roost. Many streets are unpaved and unlighted; in heavy rain they turn to quagmires. Leo's whites are mostly officials or highly trained business executives-managers, engineers, sales agents. They are a hardworking, hard-drinking...
Adjoining "white Leo" is the teeming "native town," known to the Negroes as Le Beige. Without its 350,000 Africans, Leopoldville would crumble in the tropical sun. Each morning, thousands of Negroes bicycle into downtown Leo to work in the shipyards and offices. Evenings, they stream homeward to the jumble of shacks, tenements, modern homes and tastefully built hospitals that make up "black Leo." In the darkness, millions of candles glow under the mango trees where Negro market women do a roaring trade in bread, beer and dried fish, green-and-brown-striped caterpillars (a delicacy when fried in deep...
...Humanities section of the Bowdoin Prizes (English) for graduates, Alfred W. Satterthwaite 6G won the $400 first prize for an essay entitled "Some Interpretations of Greek Tragedy." Leo Bersani 3G received honorable mention for his essay "The Development of a Jamesian Novel: Notes on the Writing of "The Ambassadors...
...against Yale in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. An affirmative team of Ralp I. Petersberger '55, Robert M. O'Neil '56, and Joseph E. Frank '56 will debate at Princeton. Gold medals will go to each of the debaters, continuing the tradition revived last year. The alternates, E. Leo Slaggie '56 and Evan R. Berlack '56 receive silver awards...