Word: pressinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salisbury has been for years Anthony Eden's close friend and mentor. As Eden's chief representative in the House of Lords, he wields strong influence, and he is pressing it to the full. If the Cabinet came out for amending the Royal Marriage Act to ease the...
Hernandez, who once organized his own dance band, proved expert at setting up the braceros with music before following with Spanish-language tracts and exhortations emphasizing clean lives and the obligation to return to wives and children with full pockets. On Saturday night, when the sombreroed braceros jammed the streets...
The Catholics have an unhealthy attitude, too, says the Century-"Obvious claustrophobia." They feel surrounded, hedged in as a minority, and they respond by "reaching out, pressing out, pushing out, taking instant advantage of every weak spot . . ." This puts Protestantism on the defensive.
¶Commenting on the U.S. shortage of scientists and engineers, President James R. Killian Jr. of M.I.T. observed that the crisis is not a matter of numbers alone. "There are many areas of technology," said he, "that are now closed books to those engineers lacking creative powers or to those...