Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pickett has shaken up his lineup somewhat at the other weights. King Holmes moves up from 147 to 167 to replace the injured Rick Sullivan, while Nick Estabrook returns to action in the lower weight class. Otherwise the lineup remains the same, with Dave Skeels at 123, John Watkins at 137 and Ted Robbins in the heavyweight division...
...months Guinea has apparently learned that independence is a relative thing. It will not be easy for Africa to be completely itself, for no other continent has been so swept by foreign influence. Islam stretches not only across its top, but deep into the south-as far as the lower reaches of the Belgian Congo. Northern Nigeria is as rigidly Moslem as Saudi Arabia, and political meetings in Guinea come to a halt at sundown, when everyone troops out, shucks shoes, and bows to Mecca. Throughout most of Africa the ubiquitous East Indian minority, tirelessly busy at trade and commerce...
...record, a single needle picks up separate impulses from each channel by moving both up and down and sideways in a single groove. The two signals from the needle must be played through two separate amplifiers and speakers. Despite the necessary additional equipment, the cost can be far lower than that of a genuine monophonic hi-fi rig, because stereo achieves impressive reproduction with relatively small speakers and low-wattage amplifiers. Hi-fi addicts with component-part rigs can convert to stereo by gradually adding units...
...jumping the gun on wage increases, Cannon not only avoided having the textile industry ordered about either by the union or the Government. He also got in first with a 6% to 7% wage increase, lower than some competitors had been discussing, and well within the ability of his company and the industry to pay in the light of textiles' growing recovery from its long postwar slump (TIME, Dec. 8). Since the last pay raise in 1956, textile productivity has risen...
Perkins emphasized that Rent Adjustment was not a method for financial aid. The basic purpose of Rent Adjustment, he stated, was to "bring together men with capacity for different rents and to keep different abilities to pay from separating roommates." Students will not be permitted to move into lower-priced suites next term, however, unless they obtain special permission from their Masters...