Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prepared to receive French Premier Guy Mollet (see FOREIGN NEWS), who is scheduled to visit Washington this week for two days of top-level talks...
Raising the Level. Above and beyond these achievements, Coleman considers that he has a far more serious mission to fulfill. Mississippi has the most lopsided economy in the South: 42% of its work force is on farms. Striving to eliminate illiteracy and grinding poverty, and determined to raise the lowest per-capita income in the nation and halt an exodus of 40.000 citizens each year, the state has tried to balance agriculture with new industry ever since the first term of Governor Hugh White...
...Omnibus. "We were operating," says Omnibus' Executive Producer Robert Saudek, "with what Justice Holmes called 'the fighting significance of guarantees.' " What Saudek meant was that Omnibus, with Ford's "venture capital" behind it, could fight the mediocrity of TV and "raise the level of American taste." Saudek and Omnibus made such a good start at both objectives that last week the foundation decided to abandon its "experiment" and sent Omnibus into the cold world of commercial TV -with its blessings...
Walter Selove, professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania and formerly assistant professor of Physics here, took a rather different viewpoint of the situation. He pointed out that it is virtually impossible to determine what may be reasonably called a "permissible level" of radioactive strontium 90 in the body...
...said that the generally accepted level for small, occupational work is 100 roentgens, but many reputable organizations have decided that when dealing with a large body of people--such as a nation--one should use a figure about one-tenth as large--that is, ten roentgens...