Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard-driving efforts, Karin De Long is paid $4,750 a year. With a master's degree and merit raises, she could rise to $9,500 in another 15 years. She may not last that long as a teacher. But for as long as she stays on the job, Teacher De Long intends to give English composition the full treatment. Says she: "So much misunderstanding in the world is based on the inability of someone to express his true feelings to somebody else...
...Howard Edmondson won the 1958 gubernatorial runoff primary, brashly upset the Dry-favored candidate slated by the old guard Democratic machine. Elected Governor, he got prohibition repealed by referendum, went on to push for such general reform measures as legislative reapportionment, a patronage-free highway committee, a merit system for state employees. Still popular with the voters, he might have won most of his proposals had he not continued to snub the old political hands and to make a big to-do about his cabinet full of novices in their 30s. Old politicos also resented his Eastern-style narrow-brim...
...Deadly Game. A Friedrich Duerrenmatt novel adapted by James Yaffe makes a play of some moral and theatrical merit. Retired European men of law place a brassy American salesman on trial in a kind of parlor game. It turns out to be a spider's parlor. With Claude Dauphin. Max Adrian, Pat Hingle...
...Deadly Game. A Friedrich Duer-renmatt novel adapted by James Yaffe makes a play of some moral and theatrical merit. Retired European men of law place a brassy American salesman on trial in a kind of parlor game. It turns out to be a spider's parlor. With Claude Dauphin, Max Adrian, Pat Hingle...
Return for a Gift. But were the Post-Dispatch stories relevant as news? By the paper's own accounting, Frank Prince had stayed in the clear for the last 35 years. The manner in which the stories came about added even graver doubts as to their moral merit. Last fall Prince gave $500,000 to St. Louis' Washington University. Although he attached no strings to the gift, the university planned to name a building after him. It was while gathering biographical material on Philanthropist Prince that the crime-hunting Post-Dispatch came across the facts of his distant...