Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinated to a perverted notion of the 'well-rounded' person. If there is to be a revival of academic interest at Yale, then there will have to be a de-emphasis in the whole sphere of extracurricular activities. The recent creation of the Ivy League is a significant step in preventing undue emphasis on athletics...
Walking cautiously along the forest trail blazed by the British in Ghana and Nigeria, France last week permitted its African citizens in the dank and sweaty Cameroons (pop. 3,300,000) to take a big step toward self-government. Under a law passed by the French Assembly (under which France still maintains firm control over the West African colony's foreign affairs, defense and money matters), the Cameroons became something called a "State Under Trusteeship." Last week ambitious and outspoken Andre-Marie Mbida,.an ardently anti-Communist Cameroonian tribesman who once studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood, took over...
...been touted as a "test" for schizophrenia. It is far from being that, since it also gives a red reaction with patients suffering from various infections, cancer, disorders of the liver, or even with women in the later months of pregnancy. But Akerfeldt's work may be a step forward...
Last week, the government took its first real step toward selling this profitable empire. Free-enterprising Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard announced that the Volkswagen auto works, the world's fourth biggest automaker (behind the U.S. Big Three), will be sold to small stockholders, and the deal will set the pattern for the later sale of other state-run giants...
...liquidate the losers among its companies, let the rest battle private enterprise on the basis of free competition. While giving this assurance, Fascetti also plans to be a tougher competitor, spend $1.5 billion to expand. I.R.I.'s five steel works, which now produce half of Italian steel, will step up capacity by 60%. In transport, I.R.I, will add 56,000 tons of new shipping to its Italian Lines, and I.R.I. will merge the two airlines it controls to form a major international air carrier...