Word: needed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they lifted Nyerere to their shoulders and draped him with garlands of flowers after the Governor's announcement in the Legislative Council. All that night, green-shirted members of his Tanganyika African National Union danced in the streets and sang party hymns. For once, colonial officials did not need to fear a fervent nationalist display, for Nyerere has won the confidence of most Tanganyika whites, who admire the patience and moderation with which he has conducted the campaign for self-government...
Pushbutton Draperies. Local leaders in dentistry had assured Hay that such a hospital was not only desirable but necessary. An estimated 9,000 patients annually need admission to Los Angeles' general hospitals for dentistry, though only 5,000 actually go in. With the city's population zooming, general-hospital beds are getting scarcer. Besides, most of its general hospitals dislike the cavity trade, and dentists are low men on the medical totem pole, with no admission priviliges. Patients who need hospitalization for major dentistry are listed as: the bedridden, the mentally retarded, many psychiatric patients, business and professional...
...internal costs under control. "If you don't stabilize your wage costs," says he, "you will lose export orders, lose gold and get unemployment. It is as simple as that. You have the strongest economy in the world, the highest productivity in the world. There will be no need to devalue the dollar as long as you keep your wages geared to productivity...
...they gaze into the decade of the 19605, the economists see a population growth for the U.S. that will push the number of Americans past the 200 million mark by 1970, a population so much in need of homes, clothes, autos and all the other things that Americans expect as their birthright that the U.S. will be ripe for a $700 billion economy in ten years...
...tourist upon first encountering a Paris pissoir, adding: "I do not find it so strange that America placed a urinal in the center of the Paris exhibit at Chicago. I think it belongs there, and I think it a tribute which the French should appreciate. True, there was no need to fly the Tricolor above it." Oddly enough, the best piece is Miller's account of how, a little squiffed from cognac, he told the story of Goldilocks to his children. "One day the grizzly bear was out gathering wood for the fire," the father improvises shakily...