Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answers to questions about the employment of needy students were incomplete, and the Committee should have said so. The only data supplied were total wage figures; apparently no records are kept on the financial need of employees. Although at one point the Committee says "there is a slight tendency to pick the best man for the [manager] job, regardless of financial need," it gives no proof of the assertion. As it stands, the statement neither enlightens the community nor is fair to the HSA. If the HSA keeps no records on the need of its agency managers the Committee should...
Marina Oswald, 22, sat at a table in Parchey's Restaurant in Washington. Ten feet away were two vigilant Secret Service agents. Slight and slim at about 5 ft. 2 in. and 98 Ibs., she had had her .hair set in a beauty parlor-something her late husband would not have allowed. She wore touches of makeup-something her husband had frowned upon. She lit a cigarette and smoked it-something he had disapproved...
William McChesney Martin Jr.-who occupies what Patman somewhat extravagantly calls "the most powerful job in the civilized world"-successfully campaigned for a slight squeezing of credit and rise in interest rates. But his colleagues are sharply divided on the issue, and the Federal Reserve is being pelted with criticism from several sides...
...committee reports the HSA as feeling "its prime purpose" is to provide jobs "for needy students." but it presents no thorough evaluation of the HSA's success in meeting this goal. At one point in the report the committee states "there in a slight tendency to pick the best man for the (managerial) job, regardless of financial need." No figures are given on either managers' salaries or financial needs of HSA employees, however, to substantiate the point...
Died. Alan Ladd, 50, tough-guy movie hero, a slight and, in real life, amiable Californian who hit the marquees in 1942 as the suave, trench-coated hood in This Gun for Hire (with Veronica Lake), played much the same cool role some 200 times thereafter, winning brickbats from the critics (except in Shane) but such dogged admiration from the fans that, as he once said, "every time Paramount wants to meet the payroll, they start an Alan Ladd picture"; found dead in bed; at his Palm Springs, Calif., home...