Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York University and graduate experience at Cambridge. But he was also a British Guiana-born Negro, and the London engineering firms to which he applied told him politely that there must have been some mistake: no jobs were available. Then Braithwaite heard that London's schools were desperately short of teachers. The young physicist got his job-as an instructor in Greenslade secondary school, a state-financed establishment for troublemaking slum children from London's East...
...most famous head of hair in the nation last week belonged neither to Senator John Kennedy nor to Pianist Artur Rubinstein, but to a 25-year-old television actor named Edward Byrnes, who in three short weeks has become the hottest new property on records. The source of Byrnes's top-of-the-head fame is a peculiarly wolfish ditty called Kookie, Kookie (Warner Bros.) in which Byrnes sings scarcely a note. His contribution is a series of jive lingo replies to a marshmallow-voiced girl who implores him over and over again: "Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb...
...Anderson took an unorthodox step: instead of setting a rate on a single issue of short-term securities, the Treasury this week will auction off $3.5 billion in such notes to see what the buyers will pay. Then it will set the rate on a $1.8 billion short-term issue. Anderson tried no long-term bond, simply because the Treasury can not get an interest rate high enough (i.e., above 4¼% ) to sell it. Publicly, the Treasury is keeping a stiff lip. Privately, it trembles...
...only defense against the short-comings of collective action by the state is concerted resistance by individuals," Buckley warned, since democracy no longer guarantees "enlightened" public action. If the entire thinking class suppresses its collective conscience, "great nations are humbled," he stated...
...letters charged that Pusey had overlooked arguments for the loyalty oath, "in his understandable zeal to defend academic freedom." Citing a distinction between "conspirators" and intellectual "heretics," the petition claimed that the former attempt to "cut short free exchange of opinion...