Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech to the National Foreign Trade Council in Manhattan, is that a new process of communication between East and West may be developing. "I say 'may' because only time can tell whether we shall have learned to talk somewhat less at cross purposes than in the past, and with better understanding of opposing points of view." Khrushchev, said Herter, had said there was a need for "a common language despite the ideological conflict to which he staunchly adheres. Many will find this hard to believe after the years of baffling doubletalk. Yet I believe that on certain fundamentals...
...security it gets for its tax dollar. Reason: the 1961 budget, like many of its predecessors, represents slow compromise with the fast, uncompromising changes of modern-weapons technology. Result: it spreads too thin over too many half-finished, half-good or plainly outdated programs, perpetuates costly ideas out of past wars, fails to concentrate spending upon the strict necessities of today and the future...
...chief reasons for this increase, Medical School officials say, is their student financial aid program. During the past decade, financial aid to medical students has gone up 740 per cent. During the same period, tuition rates went up only 73 per cent. Since 62 per cent of the School's tuition money is used for financial aid, officials feel the raise is justified...
...distinguish himself from Mr. Nixon. Yet he cannot afford to, nor, perhaps does he want to, do this by repudiating the Eisenhower administration with which Mr. Nixon must be associated. He has, therefore, been forced into taking positions opposite from those which he has been associated with in the past; positions basically more conservative and illiberal...
There has been quite a conglomeration of talent at the Colonial for the past two weeks. Robert Anderson, author of Tea and Sympathy, has written a play called Silent Night, Lonely Night, in which two accomplished professionals, Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes, star. Peter Glenville has turned his considerable talents toward directing this production, and Jo Mielziner and Theoni V. Aldredge handle lighting and costuming...