Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this way: "This campaign is basic. Have I done a good job for the state? And if not, can anyone do better?" To this, Art Langlie, the Eisenhower Republican replies: "The people are entitled to make a decision and determine whether they want the facts honestly on a national level or are going to have a continuance of the idea that the federal Treasury is a pork barrel and everyone can reach in and get whatever he can regardless of the welfare of the country...
...police arrested swarthy Angelo John LaMarca, 31, in Plainview, five miles from the Weinberger home. At headquarters LaMarca, sometime mechanic and cab driver and the father of two children, stolidly confessed. Two months before the kidnaping, he said, he had moved his family into a new $15,000 split-level home. He was broke, and the bills were piling up. He needed $2,000. On the Fourth of July he decided that a kidnaping was the only...
HOUSE BUYING will be easier under new FHA regulations reducing down payments on old houses to level now prevailing on new houses. Instead of minimum down payment of 12% of first $9,000 of price, 27 % on rest, old-house buyer can now pay 7 % of first $9,000, 27 % on rest. On $15,000 house this means minimum down payment drops from...
...verbatim. Johnson & Johnson, No. 1 U.S. maker of bandages and surgical dressings, has started a nonpartisan political-education program that has prompted 80 employees to hold political office in states where the company has plants. Ford Motor Co. last June sent out letters urging more than 12,000 management-level employees to take an "active, perceptive interest in candidates" and to devote "at least a portion of their available time to the party of their choice...
...world")-"All is vanity" is not exactly a new philosophy, but it is a valid one. However, in Ecclesiastes it is a philosophy to live by, enhancing the precious value of life's passing moments. In Five A.M., it is interpreted as degrading life to the level of a futile, nihilistic charade. Author Dutourd writes as dry ice feels, but his chilling message is only half true. A man's lifetime is invariably more than the sum of what he thinks and Feels in the small, black hour...