Word: poore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years later the U.S. is still running a poor second in the two-entry space race. And in high-level Washington last week, there still were no detectable signs of urgency about the U.S.'s space lag. The President, his advisers reported, was convinced that the U.S. space effort must be kept "within reason." Vice President Richard Nixon assured a press conference that the nation's space effort was "moving along at a reasonably good pace." Herbert F. York, the Defense Department's director of research and engineering, dismissed the Soviet lead in the space race...
...been blown up into a national sensation, United Artists fought the case. In a hearing last April, Post Office Examiner William A. Duvall upheld the ban. The Goya original, he conceded, "is a masterpiece, [and] nudity is not obscene." But Duvall argued that United Artists had sent out a poor reproduction. Said he: "It is a copy of a photograph which does not accurately depict that which it purports to show ... It is simply a color picture of a nude woman...
...feeling when I went to Amherst that a Caucasian gets when he goes to China, that everyone looks alike." Latham talks about what he calls the "class homogeneity" of Amherst. "We don't really have a 'beatnik' element, or the extreme contrast of the very rich and the very poor...
Harris said that this practice of shifting the burden of old age support to the poor and to state and local governments should be discouraged. While the Administration is now planning increases in the payroll tax rate to accumulate a large reserve fund, he stated, there is some question whether the appropriate financing methods should not be to increase the "very low level" of benefits or to postpone rises in rates...
There were four mass rallies: an opening ceremony and parade in the Weiner Sports Stadium; an anti-colonialism meeting which was largely unsuccessful because of a poor choice of location and impending rain; an expertly handled parade on Vienna's Ring ending in a "solidarity" rally in a public park, featuring singer Paul Robeson; and the closing ceremony by the Vienna Rathaus, which was basically an international talent show...