Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report to the Board of Overseers three weeks ago, a top-level Overseers committee recommended that the University build a "House without beds" to replace the antiquated Dudley Hall. It is known that blueprints for the projected Center have been discussed in Dudley, and that the commuters have been promised a new building as soon as possible...
...Republican Sumner G. Whittier are essentially aged versions of the rallying cries of the last two decades--expanded social welfare legislation and the mismanagement of the other party's years in office. The campaign blueprints are the same too, although the candidates are both relative newcomers to the top level of state politics. The Democrat must pull the heartstrings with his pension plans and labor benefits, and the Republican has to do the same while covering his committments to the Associated Industries back in Swampscott for Swansea. But whatever their real beliefs, both Furcolo and Whittier must aim their pitches...
...outraged parent is not inclined to wait for the slow-grinding mills of the law to protect his children from cheap and easy smut. The result may be a well-intentioned pressure group that tries to boycott and bully all available reading matter down to a soap-opera level. Writing in the current issue of Harper's, Editor John Fischer thinks he has found just that in what he calls "a little band of Catholics . . . conducting a shocking attack on the rights of their fellow citizens. They are engaged in an un-American activity . . . harming their country, their Church...
...find no segregation in places of business. Editor J. Clark Samuel of Massachusetts' Foxboro Reporter was struck by "fine colored schools" and the sight of Negroes and whites "living in compatibility." Publisher John C. Bond of Massachusetts' Rockland Standard noted "a real effort to lift the level of the Negro educationally...
...GREYHOUND FEUD is being patched up out of court. Greyhound gets a settlement for dropping its threat to sue automaker on charge that half the 1,000 double-deck G.M. Scenicruiser buses bought by Greyhound developed mechanical trouble. Greyhound is now ordering 500 single-level coaches from G.M. for $17 million, remains G.M.'s top civilian customer...