Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Low-Cost Advertising...
Three men have establish a non-profit publishing house in Cambridge to serve writers who aim at a limited audience. Personal advertising and a low overhead will enable the firm to break even while distributing only "good books," according to Thomas A. Bledsoe, editor-in-chief of the new company...
...Time article, summing up seven years of Bolivian history in a column, pointed out that despite the "world's most comprehensive social security," Boliving standards remained quite low. The U.S. has benevolently chipped in $129 million Yankee dollars in aid during the past six years, but the same, still unidentified diplomouthpiece made a wry face, and said, "we don't have a damn thing to show for it; we're wasting money...
Realizing this, the University should attempt to duplicate House advantages as much as possible. The problem of a homogeneous Boston group might be relieved if some students in the Houses who wished to experiment with low-cost cooperative living were to be included in the residence. Some geographic sprinkling could thus be achieved. Furthermore, as many graduate student tutors as possible should be attracted into the cooperative houses. The variety of fields represented by the senior common room of the Houses could not, of course, be achieved; but some approximation of the intellectual tone tutors provide might be attained...
Died. Daniel Alden Reed, 83, Old Guard Republican Congressman from upstate New York, senior member and onetime chairman (1953-54) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, foe of foreign aid, believer in high tariffs and low taxes; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Dan Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas...