Word: listed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Dec. 17 article "The Delinquent Teachers": please add harassed parents to the list of long-suffering chambers of commerce, corporations and tourist bureaus which would like to staunch the flow of booklet-type assignments by teachers. In the elementary grades particularly, these booklets must be liberally laced with pictures to be acceptable. Pupil A must have as many (or more) pictures as pupil B, or pupil A's booklet won't stand a chance of being displayed on the wall...
...Naval Academy at Annapolis, he was awarded so many demerits for drinking, practical joking and all-round roistering that he was expelled, was reinstated only on his father's plea and on probation. This shocked him into hard work and he finally graduated-far, far down the list-in 1921. After an assignment in 1924 to the Navy's first aircraft carrier Langley, he turned to naval aviation. Not long afterwards Fighter Pilot Brown won Navy fame by scoring 60 hits out of 60 shots on a towed sleeve in five passes, a Navy gunnery record...
...same nearly everywhere: the investigators showed up in Paris last fall in the company of former Senate Page Boy Joseph Stewart, 22, who came along as aid-de-camp. The women spent 20 days in Paris, appeared only rarely at the embassy. A typical business request: a list of USIS employees, salaries, etc.-the kind of information that is always available in Washington. For the rest of their stay, the investigators searchingly investigated shops, restaurants, bars, entertained themselves to exhaustion...
...Premier Maxim Saburov, apparently only shunted aside, unlike his predecessor Voznesensky, who was executed in 1949. The new planner is scholarly looking First Deputy Premier Mikhail Pervukhin, 52, who has risen high as an industrial manager (the approved biographies, which always make top Reds humble sons of the proletariat, list him as a blacksmith's son, which...
...first upswing in four years. Yet few consumers felt a real pinch. Workers' paychecks jumped 4% for the year, twice the increase in their living expenses. Everywhere, Americans had more money to spend ($325 billion) and spent more of it ($265 billion) than ever before on a shopping list that included 6,700,000 TV sets, 12,500,000 radios, 4,500,000 washing machines, 1,640,000 home dryers. Though sales of durable goods slipped some 5%, consumers bought so much more in soft goods (food, clothes, etc.) that overall retail sales jumped 2% for the year, including...