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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe shift to Stillman will mean that more time can be devoted to Annex service; that administration will be less cumbersome; and most important, that sick Radcliffe students will more often be treated by doctors rather than by nurses or methods of selfmedication, Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services, indicated...
...change does not mean a retreat from state control. In enlarging the collectives and assigning them their own machinery, Khrushchev is actually making them more like the big state farms, the "factories on the land," which he favors as cheaper producers of foodstuffs. Thus he brings nearer the day when all Russia's crops can be tilled and harvested by workers paid by the hour like any other factory hands...
...think about the only time that I ever acted when I was really out of sorts was when I told a music critic where to get off when he said some mean things about my daughter. If I had thought about it a while, I probably wouldn't have done...
...among businessmen themselves. The steel industry, in fact, is cautiously optimistic, feels that it has reached the bottom. Said Arthur B. Homer, president of Bethlehem Steel: "Sizing up all the factors, I've felt better about things in the last week. We see some signs already that may mean we will be at a better rate soon. When people regain confidence, when they decide the turn has come, we'll come back fast...
...says Kennecott's Cox, "automotive production is down and so are housing starts. Utilities have slowed their expansion programs. Those are our three biggest customers. And there was that price; when it climbed past 40? some of our customers began to bail out. I don't mean to put the blame for that 46? price at everywhere else but this company's door. I went along with the rest. Now we're paying for it." Copper producers are paying for it with surplus stocks; domestic deliveries last year were 1,274,868 tons v. production...