Word: proving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students, Faculty, and Administration are serious in their opposition to the loyalty affidavit, they must prove it with direct and quick action. If the affidavit is not repealed soon, it will never be, and it will be an obnoxious part of every future education bill...
...rocked by a Sunday Pictorial story that began with the words, "I, Donald Hume, do here by confess . . ." The lurid confession was that Hume had hacked to pieces a car dealer named Stanley Setty -a murder that in two separate trials the Crown had never been able to prove. Convicted only of dumping Setty's dismembered body from a hired airplane, Hume got off with a mere eight years as an accessory. Upon his release, secure in the knowledge that he could never be retried for the murder, he sold his gaudy story...
...doubtful that anyone could prove Yale had any fewer fights with "townies" or recruited any football players from this yearly early-season project, but the advantages in long-term public relations are obvious. Harvard should undertake a similar project, opening up another crack in its ivory curtain. May-be the kids would even cheer for Harvard...
National health insurance plans have been adopted by almost all of the major nations of the world, and the United States can be saved from a similar fate only if voluntary organizations prove adequate. This is the thesis on which John R. Maddax, executive vice president of the Blue Cross of Northeast Ohio, based his plea for an American Blue Cross in a speech to the American Hospital Association. According to Maddix, such an organization would have Presidential appointees from the fields of agriculture, labor, and management as trustees, and would be able to provide nationwide benefits on a service...
...away from nonfiction books that are likely to sell less than a break-even 8,000 copies. The university presses have no such profit-and-loss problems. As taxexempt, nonprofit enterprises, often bolstered by subsidies, they can afford to keep slow sellers in print as long as they prove useful. Result: more and more commercially marginal but eminently important books are being handed over to the universities. And the presses in turn are starting to attract first-rate editors and designers to give the works a professional shine. So improved are the book designs that about 25% of the selections...