Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been preachin' the gospel for 25 years, and I've never seen a time so bad." Adds 63-year-old Ben Middleton, a third-generation Harlan resident and a power in county Republican politics: "I watched this county build up, and now I'm awatchin' it go down. I don't see no hope...
...atrocities against the Jews, West Germany has paid Israel $460 million, much of it in capital goods, thus committing Israeli industries to German machines, raw materials and spare parts. At the same time, many Arabs think of the Nazis as the first and most successful anti-Israelis. "I'm embarrassed sometimes," says a West German businessman, "when an Arab says 'Heil Hitler!' to me." A less sensitive colleague admits that he prefers his Mideastern salesmen to be men "with good war records" -ideally, former members of Rommel's Afrika Korps...
...would like to compliment Miss Albright on a most capable account of Gertrude Stein's Radcliffe days. It occurred to me that your readers might be interested in some reflections on the Steins by a contemporary, Mr. Lee M. Friedman, the late Boston attorney. In a letter dated Nov. 4th, 1954, he writes...
...Robert M. Hutchins, president of the Fund for the Republic, has attacked the proposal for consolidation of high schools made by President Emeritus Conant. Debating with Conant on a Columbia Broadcasting System radio program "The Empty Schoolhouse," Hutchins labelled the plan "impossible and certainly undesirable...
...speech this week at an educational conference in Atlantic City, Fred M. Raubinger, New Jersey Commissioner of Education, labeled such programs "harmful to American schools." They "tend to rigidify the curriculum," he said, and cause "the dead hand of uniformity" to fall upon high school scholastic courses...