Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...castles in the air. It is unrealistic to expect professors and students to switch en masse from cars to motor scooters, although their use by University employees, as the report suggests, could be put into effect. Multiple-story garages, a parking space over the MTA carbarns, or even split-level construction for autos by the University seems unattainable in the near future. Their projects might be valuable investments although even the proposed garage fee of $50 per year would not for a long while defray the costs...
Taproots. But every artist has to live somewhere, and each must face the problem of how to sink taproots in one locality, while at the same time raising his painting to a level that transcends mere reportage. Nowhere is the problem more difficult than under the empty vault of the great U.S. Southwest, with its endless horizons, dwarfing mountains and picturesque hangovers from the wild and woolly past. One of the new Southwest artists to face, and largely solve, this problem is Otis Dozier, 52, currently being hailed with a retrospective one-man show at the Dallas Museum of Fine...
...this November they trimmed output to 577,843, an annual rate of about 6,900,000, and were determined to hold to that level, with this month's production slated to be 600,000. At least one of the Big Three, Chrysler, talked of "leveling out" production, aiming to produce a steady flow of cars throughout the year to increase efficiency, decrease layoffs avoid overstocking dealers...
...must know he cannot hope to win the 1960 nomination without support from the liberal Northern wing. He may therefore be disposd to compromise. But it is in the give-and-take of the Senate and House, rather than in the artificial workings of a committee with a top level but nothing beneath it, that any progressive legislation and responsible Opposition can be molded...
Newly elected trustees on the high-level board are Chancellor Harvie Brans-comb of Vanderbilt University and President James R. Killian, Jr. of M.I.T. They will fill vacancies created by the retirement from university presidencies of Oliver C. Carmichael of the University of Alabama and Harold W. Dodds of Princeton...