Word: re
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Re the steel strike, I would like to quote La Rochefoucauld: "Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side...
Dipping-ln. In Seoul, Korea, after a crowd and a lot of cops gathered while a suspect re-enacted the holdup of a watch store, six cases of pocket-picking were reported...
...Adlai Stevenson's disaster when he tried to discuss the issue of national "drift" in 1956, were trying to avoid such words as "purpose" and "softness" in favor of Candidate Stuart Symington's line: "The people are not too flabby to do the job; they're just being misled." Yet Democrats could not convincingly fault Dwight Eisenhower's leadership without saying where they themselves wanted the nation to go. Inescapably, the debate would turn to purpose...
...goes deeper. Said the Rev. Homer McEwen, Negro pastor of Atlanta's First Congregational Church: "We have lost our traditional thrust toward a moral society." Watching the modern morality play unfold in Washington, a Bostonian remarked: "The awful thing about the quiz show scandals is that we're looking at ourselves." But a Los Angeles man said, "This television mess is a pimple on the body politic-what Kennedy is talking about is the real illness...
...combination of the inherent difficulties in teaching economics in a liberal arts college plus the almost total neglect of the undergraduate program in past years has resulted in the precipitous decline in concentrators. The hope of halting that decline lies at the bottom of the Department's plans to re-design the undergraduate program, which are now under...