Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty years ago, Rubber Baron Harvey Firestone made an agonizing reappraisal of his business, reached a decision: for the first time since he founded the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. in 1900, he would have to make a low-cost tire. The best way to sell it and still uphold the firm's reputation for quality was with an institutional-type show of good music-which his wife Idabelle adored. So on Monday night, Dec. 3, 1928, The Voice of Firestone crackled out over 41 stations of the NBC network, between Physical Culture Prince and The A. & P. Gypsies. Unlike...
Horace Mann Bond, Negro educator and author, last night sharply criticized our educational system for its neglect of gifted children from low economic and social backgrounds...
Bond suggested that social and cultural factors should be weighted against standardized test scores in determining recipients of scholarship awards. He argued that students of low economic background with high test scores have done better in college than those students of higher economic status with high test scores...
Businessman La Cavera knows that Sicily has a long way to go. Sicily's per capita income is still woefully low at $175 annually (v. $470 in Italy's industrial region of Piedmont); many thousands of unemployed still eke out a bare existence, eating lumache ed erbe (snails and greens) gathered in the woods. But Sicily has hope and enterprise for the first time in. centuries. "It doesn't require miracles," says La Cavera. "All it takes is will and work, intelligence and initiative. In ten years, we'll catch up with the rest of Italy...
...Low-cost accommodations are now available to Harvard and Radcliffe faculty and students for a flight to Europe this summer, Stephen Salomon '58 has announced. Salomon has chartered a Flying Tigers Super G Constellation with seating space for 114 passengers...