Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems clear now that more must be accomplished than merely patching up the school system with emergency facilities. Encouraged by the present popular concern, city and state should formulate extensive aid for a school system which faces a mammoth task...
...resolution so that it would lay the groundwork for similar legislation on space agencies, he sounded out Democrats and Republicans alike for reaction. Last week, when G.O.P. leaders discovered what he had in mind, they hotfooted it to the White House, warned that Johnson was about to capture another popular issue just as he had captured defense preparedness...
...help themselves to "cope" by taking a pill. There was even a suggestion (eventually dropped) that similar ads be placed at railroad crossings, bridges and volcano craters, the meccas of the suicide-minded. (Several attempts to commit suicide with overdoses of tranquilizers have failed.) Tranki pills have proved especially popular with students cramming to pass the tough exams for government jobs...
Died. Dr. André Crotti, 84, Swiss-educated, internationally famed goiter specialist and author (Thyroid and Thy-mus); in Columbus, Ohio, on the day that his French Artist-Brother Jean Crotti, 79, a forerunner of the surrealist movement and first developer of the now popular gemmaux technique (TIME, March 25), died in Paris...
...Kelso. Except for Kelso's wife, Adler was the first person to see the book; U.S. readers will see it shortly under the sweepingly simple title Capitalism. So challenging did Adler find Kelso's ideas that he proposed the two men collaborate on a kind of popular preview. Says Adler confidently: "The Capitalist Manifesto is to Capitalism what The Communist Manifesto was to Das Kapital...