Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, 254-131 in the House. Ike promptly vetoed it-exercising his thumbs-down right for the first time in the Democratic 86th Congress. Last February Ike had told a hostile REA meeting in Washington that it was time for prospering REA to give up its subsidy of low-rate Government loans (TIME, Feb. 23). In his veto message he explained that REA had all but fulfilled its mission-96% of the nation's farms have been electrified, more than half of them through REA loans-and noted that there was no sensible reason for changing a successful administrative...
Lyman suffered in silence the nickname "Rocko." (WELCOME HOME, ROCKO, read 1945 Honesdale banners.) Growing up, Lem learned golf, polished it into his present long-drive, low-80s game (one back-home partner on Honesdale's nine-hole course: Art Wall, 1959 Masters champion...
Wages Up. In the boom's early years, profits went mainly into the pockets of owners and managers, or back into expansion. Labor docilely withheld wage demands while industry rebuilt, and heeded the argument that costs had to be kept low to compete in international markets. Now workers and salaried white collar people are sharing in the benefits of the economic "miracle." Since 1948, wages have more than doubled, but they still average only $27 per week. The traditional 48-hr, work week is gone: Germans work 45 hours, are heading toward 40. To supplement family incomes, wives often...
Said one Western scholar last week: "As pious Moslems, al-Azhar men don't drink, smoke or go out with loose women. And they are content with low pay." Says Rector Chaltout: "For ten centuries, al-Azhar has interpreted the Koran and taught its language. Now it will widen the Scope and knowledge of its graduates so that they may paint a true picture of Islam wherever they travel...
...across the U.S. more than 30 deaths (including at least one adult suicide) have been blamed on the bags. Most victims have been young children, with four (aged four months to two years) in Arizona's Phoenix area alone. Reason for the concentration there is the low humidity: dry air increases the plastic's tendency to develop a charge of static electricity and adhere to anything around. After the bag covers a child's mouth and nose, he soon becomes too faint to coordinate his actions and pull away the sticky folds. Vomiting usually follows. Cause...