Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leonard Bernstein rapped his baton and signaled the spirit of the day with Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. A rousing Hail to the Chief brought on the President himself, and then the full-throated Star-Spangled Banner. After a few other musical offerings (Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens, Baritone Leonard Warren), the President got up to speak. The music, he quipped, raised one question: "If they can do this under a tent, why the Square...
...over me when we were married," Gloria, herself a onetime child-custody pawn, disclosed that she once warned Stokie in a letter: "I do not want my boys exposed to your paranoid attitudes." In rejoinder, the maestro tartly accused Gloria of absentee motherism, late to bed and late to rise, traipsing out for dinner, often missing lunch with the children because she "makes morning visits to her psychiatrist and returns home...
Died. Whitley Charles Collins, 61, president of Northrop Aircraft, Inc.; of a circulatory ailment; in Los Angeles. A banker by training, Collins brought financial know-how to Northrop when he took over in 1954, in four years saw its sales rise from $171 million to $256 million...
...load in higher education," Harris said. Example: in the 14 years ending last year, the annual state and local share of U.S. educational expense rose from 24% to 34% ($1.2 billion), while the federal contribution declined from 36% to 15% ($535 million). Harris thinks the federal share should rise by $500 million yearly. With state and local governments chipping in an additional $500 million (perhaps $1 billion "under great pressure"), the total governmental share for colleges could be about $1.5 billion yearly...
...professional traders had just about run out of things to say about the market. Wall Street's brokers and analysts have chewed the juice out of all the minor, technical reasons for the continuing rise. Now they are coming to recognize the great, overriding reason: business is fine and getting better. The U.S. is off on a brand new boom...