Word: nine
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...Supreme Court, she was represented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its attorney, Thurgood Marshall. He had a powerful precedent. Nine years ago, in Gaines v. Missouri, the Supreme Court ruled that Missouri must let Lloyd Gaines study law at the state university, or set up an equal law school for Negroes...
Hawley starts work April 1 at $15,000 a year (he will also get $6,000 Army retirement pay) . He will find his potential practice nine times bigger than it was. In the VA he had 4,000,000 patients ; there are now 29,250,000 members in Blue Cross, 7,250,000 in Blue Shield. And that is only a beginning, announced Roy E. Larsen, president of Manhattan's United Hospital Fund† and former director of the New York Blue Cross. Blue Cross membership increased 15% last year; on that basis, Larsen said, it would take only...
Deflation. As expected, the Federal Reserve Banks took a tiny step to curb credit. With Federal Reserve Board approval, the rediscount rate (the interest which member banks must pay on advances from Federal Reserve Banks) was raised from 1% to 1¼% in nine of the twelve FRB districts...
These are the knotted questions posed by F. L. Green, a gifted English novelist,* in the second of his nine novels to appear in this country. (Odd Man Out was the first.) A Flask for the Journey displays Green's novelistic technique to top advantage: his granite prose; his talent for evoking atmospheres of disturbed feeling, bloodshot with suspense and anxiety...
There is no real lead in the play. Top roles are shared by nine men, all of whom happen to be members of the Cambridge City Council. Their acting is well nigh flawless. The plot is centered around the futile and ludicrous efforts of a City Council to elect a mayor from among the members of the Council. To date they have held 319 ballots, and no one has been chosen, though at a point early in the balloting one of the actors had four votes and needed only his own to make him mayor of the city. Fortunately...