Word: nation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATION. A Los Alamos man put it another way last week: "This is it. Mission accomplished...
Like birds in the spring, polio moves northward over the nation from the South. This year, the fifth since Salk vaccine was introduced, it began in Florida and southern Texas, hit hardest at Mexicans. Last week it struck the Middle West, with concentrated epidemics among slum-dwelling Negroes in Des Moines and Kansas City. At week's end the U.S. Public Health Service reported that thus far in 1959 there have been 855 polio cases (574 paralytic) as against 588 (297 paralytic) in the same period last year...
Three months ago, the prodigious Ford Foundation gave $9,161,210 to nine colleges and universities to improve teacher training (TIME. April 6). Last week Ford gave again: $6,317,000 to ten other institutions, all for the sake of seeding the nation with more competent pedagogues than those now available. Last week's beneficiaries: Bucknell University. Central Michigan College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University. University of North Carolina. University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University. Wayne State University. All are hard at work on stepped-up programs following the Ford formula: end trivial, time-consuming "educationist...
...forcing subscribers to take both its morning and evening editions and requiring advertisers to take space in both editions or none at all. Moreover, the Beacon (said the Eagle) had sicked the Justice Department on the Eagle in the first place -as just another episode in one of the nation's oldest, ugliest newspaper feuds...
...British Isles newspapers and periodicals were closed or closing. Reason: Great Britain's worst printing strike in more than 30 years. Started last month, when members of ten printers' unions walked off their jobs, the strike last week spread to 38 firms making ink for the nation's presses, including those of London's mass-circulation dailies...