Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took until 1957 for the FDA to figure out by increasingly sensitive tests, that there is a minute residue of stilbestrol in other parts of caponettes than the head -20 to 30 parts per billion in the liver and 35 to 100 in the skin...
Mike (the older brother) and Ralph Cahaly estimate that 90 per cent of their business comes from Harvard undergraduates. So dedicated are the two to the College trade that on snowy January final examination mornings they sell huge handfuls of three-penny postcards, at no profit to themselves, to students who have invariably forgotten to trek to the postoffice...
...Jewish students," wrote Kilson, "I believe that they constitute about 25 per cent or so of the Harvard student population, and I do not recall, during my stay at Harvard, any serious criticism of the University for having a discriminatory policy towards Jewish students...
...balloting, which was by proportional representation, Stevenson received nearly 60 per cent of the first place votes. After a correlation of first, second, and third place votes, Stevenson far outdistanced Senator John F. Kennedy '40. The leading candidates, and the percentage of the total adjusted voting strength behind them, are: Adial E. Stevenson 42 per cent John F. Kennedy 23 per cent Hubert Humphrey 13 per cent Stuart Symington 6 per cent Lyndon Johnson 6 per cent...
...employs 5,000 workers, v. 150 when he started, has one factory running three full shifts a day, spinning, weaving, dyeing, cutting and sewing cot ton garments for export. Last August he added a new factory to weave 1,000,000 yds. of cloth per month, cut 60,000 gar ments a day. His own garment exports to the U.S., 15% of the crown colony's, have risen from $1,000,000 in 1956 to $12 million this year...