Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vanished from Israel. "It took us only one week to conquer the Sinai desert," said a Jerusalem schoolteacher, "and only one day to lose it." Perhaps Ben-Gurion never intended to keep Sinai ("We want no more desert"), but he had obviously hoped to bargain with it for his minimum demands: 1) peace on the border; 2) possession of the Gaza Strip and of islands in the Gulf of Aqaba; 3) the right to move Israeli cargoes through the Suez Canal...
...Power Elite. In Hartford, Conn., the State Labor Commissioner Renato Ricciuti ruled that Motel Owner Alex Crawford must pay his night clerk the state minimum wage of 75? an hour, in spite of Crawford's explanation that the clerk, who works a 93-hour week for 54? an hour, is an executive...
...easily as strong as that of opening night. Dominating the performance is Frederick Brozer as Figaro. He has a big voice which he projects well, and he invests the role with considerable charm. Marietta Perl makes Rosina an artful coquette, and manages the difficult vocal line with a minimum of effort...
...college-wide center. As Harvard walls of college cohesion crumble into spheres of influence, the House must play an increased role as the focus of student activity. If Houses are to realize their full potential, the presence of college-wide social and organizational ganglions must be kept to a minimum. Otherwise, University associations wil grow into centers of prestige and activity, while Houses wither to sleeping quarters for the active and apartments for the non-doers...
...However, due to lack of funds the School of Public Health is at present unable to offer new leaders in the field anything more than short term professional appointment. This condition leads to an unstable faculty which is extremely unhealthy for the academic life of the school. Since the minimum cost of a tenure appointment is set by the University at $400,000, this is indeed a difficult problem with which to deal. Dean John C. Snyder of the Public Health School estimates that $2.5 million would be the minimum amount with which "we could stabilize the school and proceed...