Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Social Climber. In Sequoia National Park, Calif., a big black bear was taken for a long ride into the woods by rangers after he broke into two convertibles and took off food, released the brake of a third car and drove it into a ditch, climbed onto the roof of a lodge and fell through the skylight...
...declaration proclaims, the core of our nation is belief in a Creator who has endowed all men with inalienable rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In that belief is our country's true hallmark, a faith that permeates every aspect of our political, social and family life. This truth, too, I hope to emphasize abroad...
...twelve girls was chosen for brains and maturity rather than papa's ability to pay (five students have full scholarships). Half are high school seniors, will get full credit for the year. The rest are recent high school graduates, may get college credit. The curriculum: English composition, biology, social science, French, all used as practical tools. The biology course, for example, focuses on the world's food, health, and population problems. "We're not trying to make experts," says Jaeger. "There is nothing so obnoxious as a 17-year-old expert. But we do hope they will...
...forever going off on solitary investigations, once (1943) covered 48 war plants in 44 days by driving day and night, found that plant profits were often exorbitant. In his lifelong pursuit of facts, he uncovered some strange ones, e.g., a striptease show produced at intervals by the Baltimore Social Security Board. Occasionally he blundered: he urged a reporter to expose a crackpot big-spending scheme called the Manhattan Project six months before the atom bomb was dropped...
...when Author Telfer deserts the patients for their keepers, the fervent social reformer becomes a kind of madhouse Grace Metalious. Two nurse trainees, Kathy Hunter and Althea Home, develop identical crushes on Donovan Macleod, the strong, silent head doctor. Macleod is impervious, but his colleague, Dr. Larry Denning, is so "vigorously amorous" that he rips off Althea's dress one night and treats her to what he regards as therapeutic rape. Pretty soon both nurses are sleeping in beds they never made...