Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after commiserating with the complaining parents, Mason left Teacher Levin's fate to Edison's Principal Hiram Alexander, who said fretfully: "We all make mistakes. She's really a good teacher." Last week, after long mulling, Alexander issued a split decision-remove the book, retain Teacher Levin. Said he warily: "I can't forget the incident. But I will not dismiss...
...Goat? To the council's surprise, the largely rural delegates voted unanimously to retain the custom of bride price. Observed one woman: "A bride price gives a girl a sense of her worth." Others feared that without paying a bride price, a man might say to his wife, "I got you for nothing, so you must be worth nothing." Besides, said another woman, "a bride's family can always remind themselves of their lost daughter by looking at the cows they got in exchange...
...have to drop the psychologist, art instruction, adult education and numerous other "frills." Last week some citizens seemed inclined to do just that. "Our town is too small for big, spectacular things," said one housewife. But other citizens were ready to pay at least a little more in taxes, retain some of the frills. Whatever the decision, Morrilton will never forget the past four years. Mused one mother of two vastly perked-up schoolchildren: "How I wish that every community had a Rockefeller living on an adjacent hill...
...claims, doublecrossed him in 1956, after promising that Butler not only would remain as national chairman but would be active manager of Stevenson's presidential campaign. He was able to stay on as a mere figurehead, says Butler, only because House Speaker Sam Rayburn "forced" Stevenson to retain...
...with the slogan, "Under Perón every worker ate his fill." Though the party is outlawed, its leaders brag that they will cast 3,000,000 blank protest ballots in the elections next week. Frondizi has such big majorities in the holdover section of Congress that he will retain control no matter what happens. But the force that really keeps him in power is the same one that keeps the Peronistas from outright rebellion: the Argentine military, which hates Peron and understands Frondizi's development program even though much of the rest of Argentina does not want...