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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself did not push very hard for Ida, a plan originally suggested by Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney. It got a warmer welcome among the underdeveloped countries that would do the borrowing than the industrial nations that would do the lending; it appealed to the diplomats present more than to the bankers, who fear that it may encourage negligent financial tendencies in poorer nations. Ida is still in the limbo of "study...
Despite the grandeur of the funeral, the mourners 'who thronged the Vatican this week-the foreign statesmen as well as the crowds of Romans who had cheered him for years as he rode through his city -knew the simplicity and the intelligent humanity that had been present beneath the papal pomp. And they would scarcely agree with his humble self-assessment of "failures" and "insufficiency." Men of all faiths agreed that Pius XII had been a great Pope...
...Last week, in a salt bath of nostalgia, Berle and another old pro who had called it quits at the same time-Jackie Gleason -were prancing again in front of their very own cameras. Unhappily, while both comedians may eventually have the last laugh, on their present shows their audiences rarely even have the first...
...years, and there were only 374,000 Americans aged 80 and over-one in 200 population. Now it is estimated that there are nearly 2,300,000, or almost three in 200 population; nearly 1,300,000 are women, slightly fewer than 1,000,000 are men. Projecting present trends in death rates, the National Office of Vital Statistics predicts that by 1980 there will be 4,600,000 octogenarians, and by the year 2,000, about...
...Patti Page Show (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Talented Singer Steve Lawrence, at present a U.S. Army private at Fort Dix, uses up part of his furlough time warbling with Smoothie Songstress Page...