Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision to accept the position actually was delayed on his own motion for more than a year because of the school situation here." Long associated with Fund for Republic programs, Ashmore in his new job will join a group of scholars and experts, e.g., former Assistant Secretary of State A. A. Berle Jr., Columbia University's famed physicist I. Rabi, in a search for ways to improve the performance of mass means of communication...
...picture tube is accused of many things, but rarely of being a revolutionary force. But that is precisely what it is, holds San Francisco State College's Samuel I. Hayakawa (Language in Action), a leading general semanticist. The most dramatic way in which TV has worked for social change, Hayakawa last week told the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.'s conference on public service programing, is shown by the problem of integration...
From scattered points in Atlantic, Cape May and Ocean counties in southern New Jersey, other bulletins poured in to the state department of health. By week's end, the department reported that a strange and deadly malady was reaching alarming proportions: 19 people had been hospitalized, nine had died. The symptoms were the same: headache, nausea, delirium, then coma and convulsions. Some doctors thought it was bulbar polio; others considered it meningitis. But though New Jersey's health department had not yet issued a blanket diagnosis, most doctors thought they knew what it was: Eastern equine encephalitis...
...state's victims (mostly children under ten and the aged) last week, there was little that doctors could do but keep down body temperatures. Work crews were spraying swamps with oil and DDT. To everyone in the affected areas. Health Commissioner Roscoe Kandle issued a sharp warning: stay clear of swamps and farmyards where mosquitoes or infected animals abound...
Brazil's booming industrial center of Sâo Paulo (pop. 3,650,000) likes to boast of itself as the locomotive that pulls all the other Brazilian states. Ten years ago Industrialist Francisco ("Cicillo") Matarazzo Sobrinho* decided it was high time Sâo Paulo got up enough steam to become a center of the arts as well. Stoked by Matarazzo's enthusiasm and backing, the city fathers and state officials financed a multimillion-dollar series of exhibition halls in the city's suburbs, organized a biennial show of international art designed to rival Venice's. Last week Sâo Paulo...