Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind Barbed Wire. An Army helicopter stood ready on the grounds of the nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital to take the President, Prime Minister and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (who dislikes air travel in general and, from his appearance, helicopter travel in particular) to Camp David, the Maryland retreat of Presidents, where Franklin Roosevelt (who called it Shangri-La) met in secrecy with Winston Churchill during World War II. (Harry Truman had no use for the place.) Some lesser lights of the British party, who followed by helicopter and car, grumbled about being tucked away in such sylvan solitude...
...basis of supply and demand." Later Means amplified his definition by blaming administered prices on bigness in business. Wrote he in 1939: "While many factors influence price insensitivity, the dominant factor is the administrative control over prices which results from the relatively small number of concerns dominating particular markets...
...particular reasons" brought about the tuition rise, Norman T. Newton, Secretary of the School of Design, explained. "It is simply a matter of rising costs." The tuition increase will affect the 219 students in the School of Design and the 242 in the Divinity School...
...varsity swimming team closes its 1958-59 season this weekend at the NCAA championships at Cornell. Defending champion Michigan will lead the awesome array of powerful midwestern schools, which have much greater talent than even Eastern winner Yale. The Big Ten colleges in particular possess world-calibre swimmers, which should easily beat Yale's contingent...
...Arab nations, explaining "We must learn to compromise and live with our neighbors in peace if we are to avoid total destruction." He also contended, "the world should attempt to "secure the right of every individual to live peacefully wherever he wants," rather than segregate Jews in a particular geographic area...