Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results showed a comeback in Ike's popularity since his alltime low in recession-ridden April, when 49% approved and 35% disapproved. Ike's all-time high on the Gallup popularity scale: 79% at the time of the Geneva summit meeting in July 1955, and again at the start of his second term in January...
...Smouhaha. as the British called it: the Egyptians would give him back the race track, golf course and other built-up property that they had seized from him after the British landings. But they would keep the surrounding farm land which, for tax purposes, he had valued unusually low. It would be up to the British to compensate...
Dark Coasting. For two nights Pioneer IV was held on its pad, once because of low clouds, and once because a radio instrument failed to function. On the third night the bird lifted off only 4 seconds late. The Jupiter fired for 182 seconds. As it passed through a high veil of cloud, a bluish ring formed around its orange tail flame like a ring around the moon. After 55 seconds of dark coasting, a faint light bloomed in the sky as the second-stage rockets fired. Then Pioneer IV disappeared...
...aspects of American public high school education--vocational instruction and the training of low aptitude students--are in need of a "searching examination, city by city and town by town," according to James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus...
Under the Program, established by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, colleges will be able to institute substantial student loan funds with liberal repayment terms and low interest rates. Authorized appropriations for the loans began this year with $47.5 million and will reach a high of $90 million...