Word: think
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help the next plan," she says, and thereby help develop a better organized and potentially more successful program. "As neighbors, this is what we ought to do--not wait until there is a crisis, and then decide what we would do about it. When I think of how fat, of how comfortable we are, I think I see the writing on the wall...
...opinion is that colored students, with three strikes against them on books, equipment and the facilities for study, are to be commended above a lot of white children we know who can't make an honor roll with the best of instruction and educational facilities. We think effort should be recognized. We think news should be printed. If these two convictions of ours soil the lily-white hands and Christian consciences of a handful of bigoted Klu Kluckers, they are invited to get the hell off our subscription list...
...Integration: "I think we can have integration as far as politics and human rights go without getting in bed with Negroes. I don't think anybody ever got pregnant by drinking out of the same water fountain...
Does this outpouring mean credit is being used to excess? Bankers think not. Their delinquency record is minuscule; the recession's trough produced few deadbeats. Ben H. Wooten, president of Dallas' First National Bank, told the credit conference: ''Private credit has not been abused. The amount outstanding today is not excessive in relation to our ability to service...
More than Circus. By this week, Cerf's face was composed as he said: "I think it's a wonderful thing for the book business. They should be very, very successful." Pat Knopf's new partners are certainly very, very savvy editors. Harper's Bessie (past jobs: U.S. public affairs officer in the Paris embassy, Look editor, OWI) has worked with such authors as Marcel Ayme, Alfred Hayes and John Cheever. Random House's Haydn (past jobs: editor of Crown and Bobbs-Merrill) edits The American Scholar, the Phi Beta Kappa journal, teaches fiction writing...