Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the world, there is a batch every now and then from the half-industrial, half suburban city of San Leandro, Calif, (pop. 64,714), 17 miles from San Francisco. The reason, we learned last week, is an attractive schoolmarm named Adele Fridhandler Levine, 30, who teaches the popular world-affairs course at San Leandro High School. Her students' main textbook: TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine...
...world-affairs class became so popular that the second year it almost doubled in size, had to be split into two sections. This year it was so over-enrolled that 70 applicants had to be rejected. To get a firsthand look at Teacher Levine's newsminded students, TIME'S San Francisco Bureau Chief Richard Pollard visited both sections last week, reported...
...D.F.L.'s labor support was vigorous and active. Despite the farm upturn, the D.F.L. was heartened by an increase in National Farmers Union membership since 1956 from 35,000 to 41,000 families. Beyond that, the D.F.L. Senate ticket would be helped mightily by the fact that popular Governor Orville Freeman, running for his third term, is considered such a lead-pipe cinch that the leadership-starved Minnesota Republicans have yet to find a man who will launch a campaign against...
...their part. Catholics have a "growing sense of security" and are "no longer afraid of the American Protestant." Catholics have also "expanded intellectually," said Jesuit Weigel, "even though pure intellectualism is not yet a popular Catholic vocation. Ancient bogies and the ghosts of former times have been destroyed. The Catholic is now perfectly ready to associate with the Protestant with affection and trust...
...boom is over for at least five years because of the low Depression-years' birth rate; 3) expenditures for new plants and equipment are likely to continue downward because of the nation's already large productive capacity; 4) consumer attitudes toward installment buying have changed ("It is popular now to avoid debt...