Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...additional meet records fell in the field events. The Crimson's Tom Blodgett won the javelin with a toss of 190 ft., 10 in., and edged out teammate Skip Pescosolido and Cornell's John Murray with 13 ft., 7 1/4 in. in the pole vault...
Week's only sour note for Chris Herter was struck on the Senate floor when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland noted for the record that many were "fearful" about Herter's "resolution and firmness," urged Herter to meet the "challenge." Before the week was out Herter...
...capita income, collects about $1 billion in state taxes. But five-sixths of the revenues from the 3% sales tax-biggest income source-must be turned back to city and town governments and school districts. All gasoline tax revenue must be spent on the highways. Result: the state must meet costs of state government, the state universities, the state police, the state mental health program, the state's unexpectedly high unemployment welfare payments (current unemployment: 340,000, or 11.5% of the work force) out of a general fund of little more than one-third of total revenue. The recession...
...last week warned India that it is on a grim arithmetical collision course. Unless a drastic turn is taken, by 1966 the birth rate will have so outstripped food production that literally millions may starve to death in a crisis that "no conceivable program of imports or rationing can meet...
...morning last week to lead a column of ships in a slow parade upstream. D'Iberville's decks swarmed with visitors; her rigging danced with bunting; and ships still at their moorings bellowed hoarse salutes. Otherwise, no one bothered with ceremony; Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower will meet in Montreal June 26 for the formal dedication...