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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted that during the two greatest periods of creativity, ancient Greece from the sixth to the fourth century B.C. and the Renaissance from 1500 to the present, great scientific discoveries and important works of art have been produced simultaneously. This seems to indicate that once a creative spirit seizes a society, it is one spirit manifested in numerous ways...
...added that it would also require vesting all power over education in state rather than in local school boards, and a change in labor's attitude towards apprentice training. He asserted that it would be easier to improve the present educational system than attempt to replace...
Curia cardinals will probably be raised $100 from their present $800 a month; archbishops and bishops from $240-$275 to $265-$335. Pay of manual workers-the blue-overalled sanpietrini-will go from about $82 to about $112, with family allowances sharply up from $8 for a wife and $8 for each child to $16 for a wife and $19.70 per child...
...time." Philadelphia-born Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, 67, like many another prelate, feels that females should be well covered in public. At his insistence, the beauty contest won by Sue Ingersoll held its bathing-suit judging in private, with only members of the contestants' families and the judges present. But Long Beach would not hear of such undercover proceedings; the brightest day is barely light enough for the glory of Miss Universe in a bathing suit...
...with his eye on the future as well as the present, Blough has vigorously pushed U.S. Steel's expenditures for research, built the world's largest ferrous-metallurgy laboratory at Monroeville, Pa. With the rest of industry, U.S. Steel's scientists are studying the behavior of ores to make the most effective use of raw materials, working on special steels needed in rocketry and nuclear weapons, and turning out such new consumer products as aluminum-coated steel sheets for the automobile industry, vinyl-covered sheets in many colors for TV cabinets, wall panels, doors...