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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fortunate Altruists, like Albert Schweitzer and Benjamin Franklin, grow into altruistic creativity peacefully, Catastrophic Altruists, like St. Paul and St. Francis of Assisi, go through painful periods of conversion before assuming their new altruistic personality. The Intermediary type, of which Mahatma Gandhi is an example, includes traits of both previous types...
...means conceded the victory. With its ranks hastily united, it has some factors definitely in its favor. Before the last election, in October, 1951, the Conservatives confidently expected to win a majority of 105 seats in Parliament. They won by a majority of 16. Moreover, no previous Government in British political history has ever lasted for more than four years on as slim a lead as the Conservatives now have and then triumphed at the polls. Labourites are banking on precedent. They are also hoping that U.S. Republican victory in 1952 will prompt Britishers to redress the political balance...
...grounds that a legal querum had not been present at the earlier vote and that the soccer spokesman may have misrepresented his case, the Council nullified its previous position, proposing instead that a committee be set up next year to gather more accurate information...
Short or Long. To buttress his arguments-that a live virus is better and confers longer immunity-Researcher Sabin went to the Eskimos. In one of their isolated communities immunity against polio was shown to have endured for 40 years after the last previous encounter with the virus. Use of the short-term killed vaccine, argues Sabin, might leave U.S. parents with the necessity of having their children reinoculated every year...
...previous season there were only 386, and ten years before a mere 77, according to a survey by the Metropolitan Opera Guild's Opera News...