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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rockefeller went to television with charts and figures to argue that his requests were imperative. Democrats shouted "Soak the poor," followed him on TV with a collection of shirts, shoes and milk bottles to demonstrate the family buying power that would be sapped by his proposal to lower state income-tax exemptions ($2,500 per couple, $400 for each dependent) to the $600-per-individual federal level. One night, when he stood up to open a sports show in Manhattan, he was roundly booed. Rockefeller spoke through the boos, grinned gamely: "Who's going to dance in the streets...
Having married the girl he was going out with (the hasty marriage later ended in divorce), young Tillich marched off to the front as a chaplain. What he saw, he says, "absolutely transformed me." First there was the impact of the "lower classes," with whom he was dealing for the first time; he began to think about their exploitation at the hands of the powers he had taken for granted-the landed aristocracy, the army and the church. "But the real transformation happened at the Battle of Champagne in 1915. A night attack came, and all night long I moved...
...heap of high-priced clothing turned out over the years for a peculiarly critical, not necessarily tasteful eye: the movie camera's. Hollywood rarely originates style, rarely fails to exaggerate what is popular at the moment. If low necklines are in vogue, movie designers drop them a little lower; if padded shoulders are in this year, every Hollywood dress slightly resembles a football uniform. The result is that Hollywood's powdered, pinched, pushed, pneumatized darlings flash across the screen looking just a little bit more like what every American woman yearns to look like...
...Hampshire: Cannon (Franconia), 30-48 base, 4 powder, good-upper, fair to good-lower; Cranmore (North Conway), 30-48 base, 6 powder, good; Sunapee, 6-50 base, 8 powder, excellent but operation today doubtful due to drifting; Mittersill (Franconia), 15-25 base, 4 powder, good; Wildcat, 35-55 base, 8 powder, excellent...
Though English nationalized medicine has made health care more accessible to lower income groups, it has failed to improve British medicine significantly, Harry H. Eckstein '46, assistant professor of Government, concluded in his recent book, The English Health Service...