Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next Jan. 1. ¶Continue the present excise taxes instead of permitting reductions next April 1. In their struggle with the tax-budget problem, Dwight Eisenhower and his aides are now well aware that they inherited a solid contradiction from the Truman Administration: defense expenditures were scheduled to reach their peak in the same years that taxes were scheduled for sharp cuts. The President and his advisers ultimately decided that there was no way to cut taxes this year and still protect the defenses and the economy...
...explain a fake code message that had been mailed in his name, Stockwell fabricated an elaborate cops & robbers story that implicated no one else within Communist reach. He was even compelled to join in the .attempted conversion of other political prisoners...
...even bigger project. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, has asked him to decorate the fagade of its new diagnostic building, and Mestrovic has answered with a typically herculean work. To be cast in gleaming bronze, it is a straight-backed figure of a young man straining to reach the sky-28 feet from tiptoe to fingertip. Mestrovic calls the statue Man and Freedom, and into its graceful, classical pose he has poured the philosophy that guides him through his work. Says he: "Sculpture and art in general should contribute to human civilization, to human progress and mankind...
...Nicholas fades away into her kitchen, one son retires to a private world of noisy chemical experiments, another runs away from home. Even on his sickbed, Mr. Nicholas dominates and blights everyone within his reach. The book has one major flaw: none of the other characters is strong enough to stand up to father for a minute. As a result, Novelist Hinde loses a dramatic chance to test him against any kind of opposition. But Mr. Nicholas, in his walkover, is as believable as a bad dream in which everything is both distorted and true at the same time...
Cooney, the only Crimson player to reach the final round after Saturday's qualifying matches, shot a sizzling 144, par for the course, for the 36 holes. He has played in the number one position for the varsity all season, after spending most of last spring in left field for the freshman baseball team. He defeated John Riggs of Penn State one up Saturday, but lost to Ted Fehr of Yale 5-4, in the final round...