Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disciplined Troops. Having launched his counterattack in the great Battle of the Budget, the President kept it rolling. So did his disciplined troops. The high-level disunity that had enfeebled the Administration's budget defense suddenly vanished. Items...
While the Republican vote has been slipping for Congress in the West--seven percent in California, eight percent in Colorado, and 14 percent in Oregon, since the 1952 elections--the Democrats have progressed on the state level as well. In Arizona and Washington they made a clean sweep of state offices, while in New Mexico, Montana, Oregon, and Colorado they captured all but one. The Democratic Party also either captured or held one or both houses of state legislatures in eight Western states. In Colorado they won both houses for the first time in twenty years, in Oregon...
Under the system which has operated for the past few years, a competition was held each fall to determine the cheerleaders. But, according to Newton E. Hyslop, Jr. '57, a member of the UAC, perennially poor turnouts have resulted in a fairly low level of cheerleading recently...
...Curtis last week recommended that the Airways Modernization Board be succeeded eventually by an even larger civil-military Federal Aviation Agency, which would absorb CAA and part of CAB. Empowered to police every inch of airspace, the new agency would probably lead to a new Cabinet-level boss for U.S. aviation. Meanwhile, CAA is planning a six-year, $810 million program of buying new electronic control equipment. It also hopes to boost present personnel from 16,000 to 24,000 in the next three years, will extend its radio and radar control to all airspace above...
...feverishly the last, in which people had the feeling that if they only took the trouble to join something, get a party card, wear a special shirt, organise meetings and bellow slogans, they could influence the course of events. Since 1946 nobody above the Jehovah's Witness level has taken this attitude...