Word: pressinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doubly magical was the effect on Chicago's Sanitary District, which for years has been pressing for greater water diversion to aid Chicago sewage disposal as well as inland navigation. Twice since 1953 it has seen Congress pass and President Eisenhower veto bills authorizing experimental increases to 2,500...
Destalinization had sparked a revolt in Poland, a revolution in Hungary, strikes in the Ukraine, widespread unrest in East Germany, Lithuania, and Estonia. Most of these disturbances could be tied to the youth of those countries. Young people, many of them nominally Communists, had taken seriously Khrushchev's thesis...
Next: Laos. Brotherhood doctors performed 5,023 major operations (including countless Caesareans) with a death rate of only 2.4% despite the primitive operating conditions and the shortage of plasma. With the nurses, they gave 721,370 medical treatments. Besides antimalarial and anti-TB drugs, they passed out truckloads of sulfas...
The National Education Association gave out its annual statistics on the growth and needs of the nation's public-school system. With 1,197,000 more pupils than last year, the U.S. now has a shortage of 180,000 teachers and 120,000 classrooms. There are 840,000 students...
According to Bogner, "A new memorial should be created such that the old Memorial Hall will be kept alive in spirit." He felt that a skillful architect could retain the memorial quality which the donors of the building originally requested and at the same time erect a new structure which...