Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the half-industrial, half suburban city of San Leandro, Calif, (pop. 64,714), 17 miles from San Francisco. The reason, we learned last week, is an attractive schoolmarm named Adele Fridhandler Levine, 30, who teaches the popular world-affairs course at San Leandro High School. Her students' main textbook: TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine...
...main political beneficiaries of the revolt that ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez last January are Venezuela's Communists. Operating freely since the revolt, they showed their power by leading the spit-and-stone attacks on Vice President Nixon. Last week, in the embarrassed aftermath of the riot, Venezuela's leftward skid split the ruling five-man junta-but left the Reds uncurbed...
Local residents protesting the proposed church are reportedly more concerned with the architects' plan for a 57-foot height of the main building than with the 90-foot spire...
...face, the existing board schedule presupposes that every undergraduate attends every meal. This fiction is far from the case, as the politburo of the Central Kitchen openly admits in its standing contention that savings on missed breakfasts permit better main meals. Yet one clear objection can be raised against this compulsory twenty-one meal system: that it is unfair to make students pay for meals they do not attend. Next year's rise in board rates makes this traditional argument even more justifiable...
...first mistake is the decisive one. He marries an ambitious woman (Geraldine Fitzgerald), a sort of Lady Macbeth of Main Street who convinces him that he belongs in the White House. A sensible man, Joe has his doubts, but he throws his hat in. the ring -and $100,000 with it. The professional politicians gratefully scoop-up the $100,000, but blandly hand Joe his hat and show him the door. Joe feels pretty foolish, but he feels worse than that when he comes to understand the crimes he has committed in the name of power. He has broken...