Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Epic staging, so highly vaunted of late, meets every expectation and is a neat solution when faced with a dining hall that isn't a theatre. I suspect many people could not read the legends flashed on a high screen but with the clarity on stage below, this should have caused no confusion. John Ratte's settings were unusual, even for the College, where good sets have been the rule in most productions. Leslie Van Zandt's costumes also added to the general aura of professional quality. General Manager Thomas Merriam, Stage Manager Ricardo de la Espiriella, and Technical Director...
Treasury officials, looking ahead, suspect that the day will come when a large part of the personal income tax will be replaced by transaction or value-added taxes. Coleman Andrews worries over the enormous machinery required for fair, efficient enforcement of the present law. He notes that 12 million taxpayers last year (and probably 15 million this year) sought help from his office in filling out their forms. Andrews says: "There is something wrong with any law that causes that many people to quit their jobs and spend a day trying to find out how to comply." Something is also...
...Confirmed New York Judge John Marshall Harlan as an Associate Supreme Court Justice by a vote of 71 to 11 (nine Southern Democrats, who suspect they will not like Harlan's views on segregation, and Republicans Langer and Welker, who do not like his "internationalism...
...Democratic Governor W. Averell Harriman and his guest, Chicago Lawyer Adlai Stevenson, greeted each other, smilingly discovered their neckties were of the same color and design. Asked whether he thought that President Eisenhower would run for reelection in 1956, Stevenson, always cagy about his own political future, replied: "I suspect he will." Later, the two leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination next year (although Harriman is still on record as favoring Stevenson) put their heads together privately, compared designs on the White House...
...more potent force than ignorance in keeping cancer victims from seeking prompt treatment. Of 314 Britons (mostly women), half had delayed going to a doctor for more than three months after symptoms appeared, and one-fourth had delayed more than a year. Regardless of intelligence, those who did not suspect that they had cancer delayed less than those who feared that they had. Doctors in the U.S. have reported opposite results...