Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easily have removed. A fire department resuscitator squad that was called to the scene backs up his story. The boys deny the charge, insist that the rescuers carelessly placed the victim on his back. Whatever the truth, on arrival at Los Angeles Central Receiving Hospital at 1:48 a.m., less than two hours after he began to choke, Dick Swanson was dead...
Rather than see their children marked as second-rate material, many middle-class parents rush to the prestigious public schools (costing up to one-third of their incomes). In turn, standards in the secondary modern schools are falling, which makes it even tougher on the children of less prosperous parents. Noted the London Times recently: "A mood of disquiet, and even of neurosis, runs wide and deep across the country...
...supposed to learn the feminine graces at home or in school; a suburban housewife announced grimly that "by golly, my husband is not going to outgrow me." Anthropologist Margaret Mead finally arranged a truce in CBS's planned skirmish between the sexes by explaining that women are becoming less feminine, men less masculine, and that both sexes are "behaving more like people." Whatever that meant, Dr. Mead happily added the observation that there will probably always be a noticeable physical difference between the combatants. Nobody could quarrel with that...
...month. At General Motors Corp.'s AC Spark Plug Division plant in Flint, Mich, and Harrison Radiator Division in Lockport, N.Y., 900 employees were put on a four-instead of a regular five-day week to conserve steel for use by divisions with less inventory. Some companies with big inventories were in trouble; they were running out of specific types, as shortages among suppliers cut off vital parts...
...performance. A former Rhodes scholar and Miami lawyer, Democrat Hector sent a 72-page memo to President Eisenhower with his resignation, urged a sweeping reorganization of the functions of the nation's regulatory agencies to rid them of detail and give them more independence. He also suggested less CAB control of the airlines, more freedom to make their own decisions on strictly business matters. Wrote Hector: "The agencies are long on judicial form and short on judicial substance." He advised transferring the CAB's policy-making functions to an executive department and setting up a court of experts...