Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcome TIME'S high-level handling of the important story of the Ben-Gurion-Goldmann ideological dispute. You have helped to illuminate Zionism as an issue of concern to men of all faiths. However, Ben-Gurion's and Goldmann's "prestige' may be high among Zionists, but your reference to it as high among "Jews" is dubious. Most Jews are indifferent or hostile to Zionism. We reject the "Jewish" nationalism of Zionism and hold that Judaism is a religious faith of universal values...
...affairs would shrink the swollen federal payroll. But last week Congress' Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures reported that in fiscal 1957 the executive branch's civilian payroll crept up to an alltime peak of $11 billion, more than $1 billion above the 1952 level...
...also been Protestant clergymen). Religion began to serve him at the age of 15; when a friend came down with typhoid, Ronnie lived on bread and butter for six weeks. His friend died, and Knox prayed for him 15 minutes each day "with my hands held above the level of my head, which is not as easy as it sounds." At 17, he vowed himself to celibacy. At 24, he became the Anglican chaplain of Oxford University's Trinity College...
...break in nearly two years. Though intermittent rallies flickered across the floor at midweek, they could not make up the loss. More selling pushed stocks lower still, until by week's end the total attrition stood at 12.46 points, bringing the Dow-Jones average to 475.74, the lowest level since April 2 and only 20.92 points above...
While the market's erratic performance turned many Wall Streeters bearish, few experts cried doom. Instead, they saw the downtrend as an orderly retreat from early summer's unwarranted high level, which brought the market within a point of the alltime 521.05 peak set last year. The selling waves were generally light-average daily volume was less than 2,000,000 shares-a sign that investors are not discouraged and intend to wait out the slump. Most big institutional investors appeared to be switching to other stocks instead of leaving the market altogether; there was no sudden rise...