Word: school
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Pointer. In Worcester, Mass., Attorney James L. Clifford won postponement of a case when he told the judge he wanted to watch his dog graduate from training school...
...Khrushchev on an occasion when I am representing the President of the U.S. Mr. Khrushchev and Mr. Eisenhower are alike in one respect. They are both men who had humble beginnings and came to the top. The Prime Minister was once a miner. The President worked his way through school, and among his jobs was the back-breaking job of carrying...
...dozens of minor expenses, e.g., shoeshines (up 10? to 35? in Sacramento) and haircuts (up 25? to $2 in San Francisco). Everywhere, middle-income families felt the pinch of such pressures as rising commuter fares, real estate prices, taxi taxes, pipe tobacco and cigar taxes, real estate taxes, school taxes, gasoline taxes. The state of Washington alone has new tax increases this year on liquor (5%), real estate rentals (.4%), business transactions (10%), and even a brand new thought-earth-moving...
...Mussolini, 19, granddaughter of Italy's late Fascist dictator. Marina was raised by her aunt, Countess Edda Ciano, after her father, Flying Ace Bruno Mussolini, favorite son of il Duce, died while testing a bomber that crashed in 1941. Now enrolled in a very proper North London finishing school, she stepped out for an early evening date (curfew on that occasion: 8 p.m.) with Sergio Valva, an old acquaintance...
Hanson: The Lament for Beowulf (Howard Hanson conducting the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra and Eastman School of Music Chorus; Mercury, mono and stereo). An early (1925), timbrel-thumping excursion into myth that seems as far from Anglo-Saxon England as Composer Hanson's birthplace (Wahoo, Neb.). The chorus protests too much, but in the gently welling final eulogy, the work stirs with a sweetly nostalgic, gracefully dappled light...