Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...super-cowboy, just as surely escapes the conventional, rule-ridden world by taking the law into his own hands. He does not know the wide-open spaces or the purple sage, but the narrow, closed-in spaces of saloons, and the windswept, nighttime highway can give him a similar sense of freedom. "The Private Eye show," says David (Richard Diamond) Janssen, "has the same elements as the western: the hero is invincible; he gets the girl and never marries her; the convertible car has replaced the horse...
...means rich, polite Bachelor Richard Kao, 30, is a sort of industrial scholar. He has a Ph.D. in economics (University of Illinois) and another under way in mathematics at U.C.L.A. An alumnus of Santa Monica's famed nonprofit Rand Corp., he now works for a similar "think palace," the Planning Research Corp. in Los Angeles. To a man of Kao's training, Newsboy Abdel's quick mind was obvious. "His goal is good," mused Kao. "He wants to be an educated...
...Castro continues to meet such crises by similar arbitrary action, his high minded revolution will emerge as no better than the despised Batista dictatorship he replaced...
...report applied its criteria to the controversial Algerian resolution passed by the August Congress at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. In doing so it modified the sharp criticism of a similar resolution passed the year before by the 1958 Student Council Report on NSA. The 1959 report says that "the Algerian resolution is acceptable in so far as it is a protest against certain acts of the French government," but claims that it goes beyond the role of "students as students" when it advocates a specific political solution, the independence of Algeria, since the stu- dent problem is only a small part...
...bill, proposed at the same time as Senators John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.) brought up a similar measure in the Senate, is presently mired in the Education and Labor Committee. Lindsay is "not sure there's a chance of getting the bill out of committee and onto the floor for full debate...