Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family buying power that would be sapped by his proposal to lower state income-tax exemptions ($2,500 per couple, $400 for each dependent) to the $600-per-individual federal level. One night, when he stood up to open a sports show in Manhattan, he was roundly booed. Rockefeller spoke through the boos, grinned gamely: "Who's going to dance in the streets when they have to pay more taxes...
...summer went to Tunisia for a student meeting. "The Russians were terribly active. One fellow constantly took notes on everything, even on rug factories." Then came Yugoslavia and a seminar on the unification of the student world. The Chinese were there in full force ("Their leader spoke perfect English learned on a U.S. air force base during the war"), and one of the Russian "student editors" who visited the United States recently was a member of the Soviet delegation. "This fellow boldly told the assembly that 'in Russia we feel a student is in the university to study...
...Conant spoke on "The Revolutionary Transformation of the American High School" last night before an overflow crowd in New Lecture Hall. His address, the annual Inglis Lecture on Secondary Education, was sponsored by the Graduate School of Education...
...recipient, in his Rumford Medal Lecture, spoke on the evolution of the capacity of plants and animals to respond to light cues. Wald described the responses in terms of molecular or chemical mechanisms...
...British universities have changed more than any other single institution as a result of the social revolution in England since the war," according to Peter Laslett, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge . He spoke last night on "British Universities in the Welfare State" at Winthrop House...