Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feelings, the way she looks at herself. We learn that the churches in New Haven have been jammed, remorse frothing from a thousand lips. Liquor sales soared as sullen undergraduates sat limp in their smokefilled digs, drowning the memory of a golden thing they once possessed. Need we mention the fourteen spectacular suicides (one symbolically, a sacrifice on the Bowl flag-pole)? Or the dingy homes of carnality in nearby Bridgeport, where scores of undergraduates sought shoddy release from a fate they found inscrutable? Or the television appeal by President Griswold, imploring alumni coast-to-coat to remain calm...
...deserve an orchid for 20/20 foresight. The stockmarket's action in the last seven months, rising almost 100 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average, has justified your cover captioned "Wall Street Bull: Spring, 1958." Forecasted pickups have likewise occurred in housing, steel and autos-to mention just a few indices -and you are to be commended for your courage in publishing this article when the recession was close to rock bottom. JULIUS M. WESTHEIMER Baltimore...
...Civil Rights? Texan Johnson did not mention certain other prospects for a new Congress that might think it had to live up to its liberal billing: automatic death for any natural gas bill, possible reduction of the Texas-cherished 27½% depletion allowance on oil income, an end to conservative and Southern hopes to limit the Supreme Court's powers...
...Pittsburgh's Duquesne University shows that buyers strongly suspect claims of price cuts above 27.5%. Polks, a large Chicago discount house, recently got a shipment of $49.95 record players that really had listed for that. But when it put them on sale at $18, it made no mention of the old price because: "the comparison would not have been believed." As a result, many stores are changing sales tactics. The J. L. Hudson Co., Detroit's top department store, no longer allows "was-is" advertising in its newspaper or house displays; instead, it insists on such...
When asked if one statement about Saltonstall's having been a civilian throughout World War II might give an incorrect impression, Bernat observed that the wording was "unfortunate." He added that "Mrs. Saltonstall was pretty upset over it" because the statement failed to mention that Saltonstall was turned down three times by the Army...