Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matyas Rakosi as boss of the Hungarian party. The cast of characters pointed to an urgent top-level conference on Communist Party affairs, an ideological communion at Yalta. The inclusion of ex-Heretic Tito suggested that he was being treated not as an outsider, but an insider in dealing with serious matters of Communist politics and dogma...
...onetime director of the education department of the National Association of Manufacturers, the coeducational university not only provides the Dallas-Fort Worth area with a new liberal arts campus open to all faiths; it is also the only college in the area to take in Negroes on the undergraduate level. ¶Appointment of the week: Carroll Vincent Newsom, 52, to succeed Henry T. Heald as president of big (37.000 students) New York University. Carroll Newsom took his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, eventually became not only a top mathematics teacher, but a prolific producer of mathematics texts...
...addition, new stock issues in the first three weeks of September alone climbed to $169 million v. only $55 million in all of August. Thus, the September market slump was not so much an urge to sell as a reluctance to buy; the trading was the lowest September level in two years. Most of the selling was by relatively small investors, while the big investors such as pension funds are either sitting tight with their holdings or buying proportionately more bonds...
LIQUOR PRICES will be boosted, first general increase since Prohibition that has not been brought on by higher Government excise taxes. Publicker Industries (Old Hickory, Embassy Club) and Joseph Seagram & Sons (Calvert, Four Roses) have decided to pass on rising production costs with 4% increase at wholesale level, or an average 35? more per fifth at retail. Rest of industry will probably follow suit...
Discharging all the sub-standard teachers, however, would not solve the problem. A teacher shortage already exists in this country: experts estimate the nation must find 16 new teachers between now and 1965 for every ten teachers presently on the job, and on the college level it must find between 16 and 25 new ones by 1970 for every ten presently employed. Finding any teachers--qualified or not--has become a difficult enough task these days. It would hardly seen sensible to start a recruitment campaign for more by discharging a large number of Negro teachers. But it would seem...