Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schine family had put Dave through the best of Eastern schools (Fessenden to Andover to Harvard), where he got good grades-even though he irritated his schoolmates by his Cadillac standard of living and his bandleader's mannerisms. His Harvard career was interrupted by a hitch in the seagoing Army Transport Service. Soon after graduation (class of '49), Dave was installed as president of Schine Hotels, Inc., although his father kept tight control of the operations. Dave distinguished himself by writing a remarkably succinct pamphlet, Definition of Communism, and father Schine saw to it that copies were...
...teach in lycées and universities, but industry offers them salaries which are three times higher than university pay." Added a spokesman for the teachers' federation: "Our teachers . . . make less money than a trained mechanic in a garage. Almost any butcher or grocer has a higher standard of living than our university professors...
Asked a Wall Street wag: "Did you hear about the lucky Texas oilman? He was drilling on his property and struck coffee." Last week General Foods Corp. (Maxwell House) and Standard Brands Inc. (Chase & Sanborn) each boosted the wholesale price of coffee again (to $1.11 a lb.), and new retail rises of 3? to 10? were on the way. People were getting used to gyrations of the jumping coffee bean...
This group will go through the standard procedure of submitting a constitution to the Dean's Office. And the scouts will probably receive recognition, for statements made yesterday say only that they plan a club "to represent the conservative point of views." Yet on Saturday, the same people told the Boston papers and the CRIMSON that they will scout "even though the College Dean has warned them that a club advocating investigating will not be sanctioned." The Administration can only take the group on its word, and therefore must grant a charter...
...Paramount demonstrated its new entry in the big-screen sweepstakes, VistaVision, to be shown on a screen 1.77 times as wide as it is high (as compared with 1.33 to 1 for the traditional screen and 2.55 to 1 for Fox's CinemaScope). Adaptable to standard movie-house projectors, the high-wide process is also handsome; no matter where the moviegoer sits in the theater, the picture is always in focus. Paramount plans to make all its future films in VistaVision. Coming Vista Visions: White Christmas (with Bing Crosby), DeMille's The Ten Commandments...