Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts of the moment justify a gloomy outlook. I think they justify an optimistic outlook.'' Said Presidential Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "The end of the great pressure of the downward movement will come to an end during the second quarter. It will mill around during the summer and lift in the autumn." The Administration's decision to hold the line on taxes already had the tentative approval of House Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills. But there were plenty of critics, both in and out of Congress, waiting for things...
...Maintain Security." By last summer the Miami yacht case was burning up the wires between Florida wing CAP headquarters and Washington. Washington appointed the deputy commander of the New York CAP, Colonel A. W. Sutter, to go to Florida to investigate. Sutter messaged ahead: "As you realize, this is a highly confidential and personal matter, and in my opinion the fewer people cognizant the less embarrassing. It is alleged that in the neighborhood of $400,000 is involved." Falling in with Sutter's theme, Washington CAP headquarters ordered the Miami CAP: "Cease all investigation. Maintain security...
Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain is a lanky (7 ft. 2 in., 225 Ibs.) Philadelphia Negro with a delicate talent for dunking basketballs through 10-ft.-high hoops and an understandable urge to see his skill pay off. But high-paying summer jobs and a free ride at the University of Kansas have not added up to enough cash, says Wilt in the current issue of Look Magazine. "I'm quitting college basketball, even though I have a season's eligibility remaining and a year to go for my degree. I am arranging a big barnstorming tour...
...design a structure that will have "walls papered with people," i.e., a system of balconies giving clear sight lines to the stage. M.I.T. Architecture Dean Pietro Belluschi will build a new Juilliard School. For a park to the southwest, the Guggenheim Foundation will donate a $500,000 bandstand for summer concerts. Still to be assigned from a pool of such top architects as Eero Saarinen and Edward D. Stone are commissions for a repertory theater and a museum-library...
...meet "the increasing demand for a better knowledge of the Middle East," the University will this summer offer intensive training in the modern languages of the area and additional courses on the peoples and their government...