Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subsidy-in-kind scheme that would hand out Government-owned surplus grain to farmers who grow even less than their allowances. Iowa farmers leaned in the same general direction, set the stage for a rough-and-tumble battle at the American Farm Bureau convention in Chicago next week. Though none of the farm organizations brought forth really promising ideas, ground was broken by the realization that, as Kansan Boone put it, "there is a lot more urgency than I have ever seen before...
...control 17 of 28 seats in the National Executive Committee, elect 93 of Labor's 258 M.P.s, and cast blocks of a million or more votes at party conferences. And Gaitskell also appealed to the original aims for which Keir Hardie and his cloth-capped trade-union radicals-none of them socialists in the doctrinaire sense of the continental European Socialist parties-founded the British Labor Party at the turn of the century...
...schoolboys knew that the ancient Romans wore togas. "But what did a toga look like?" the tubby, jolly man of 44 asked his ten-year-olds in Leeds, England. When none could answer, Student Teacher Philip Lyons whipped a toga out of his briefcase. A tailor's cutter only a few weeks before, Lyons had just run it up on his own sewing machine. Last week, like 100 other middle-aging student teachers, Lyons was well launched in a startlingly successful effort to help beat Britain's shortage of 10,000 teachers. The scheme: Britain's first...
Despite a two-to-one vote by students to invite women to the first annual Quincy House Christmas play, none of the fairer sex will see the curtain rise on The Wizard...
...none of this altered what CBS President Frank Stanton described as the networks' "laxness of responsibility" in an industry that is little controlled and vastly influential. "Something has to be done before it's done to us," said Stanton, hinting at a more balanced program schedule or even at programing that the industry, possibly in an unconscious tribute, calls the "magazine concept...