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...million for equipment, including 11 million rods and 8 million reels, plus more than $1 billion in other costs. One of every four men is an angler, one of every eleven women. The big boost that has made sport fishing big time, say the Nags Head "professors," is a threefold improvement in tackle...
...educated suffragette, onetime pacifist (she renounced pacifism as "negative" at the outbreak of World War II) who shocked American bluenoses by smoking cigarettes on a preaching tour in 1928, married (1944) the Rev. George W. H. Shaw after a 43-year, triangular love affair described in her book, A Threefold Cord; in London...
...Threefold Movement." Briefly, the President touched on some specifics, e.g., statehood for Hawaii, revision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. before reverting to the theme of the "program for the republic begun three years ago." He concluded: "The vista before us is bright. The march of science, the expanding economy, the advance in collective security toward a just peace-in this threefold movement our people are creating new standards by which the future of the republic may be judged...
...during the past decade the situation has changed completely. Applications have increased threefold and, even worse, a large percentage of candidates are qualified to do the work here--a much larger number than the College could ever accept with existing facilities. Just last month the Admissions Office revealed that more applicants were refused than accepted for the Class of 1959. It was the first time in Harvard's history this has happened...
...year after the death of U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft in July 1953. his friends set up a foundation dedicated to his memory. Soon the foundation decided on a threefold program: 1) scholarships and fellowships, 2) an institute to conduct research in government, 3) a monument in Washington. Last week, after considering hundreds of suggestions, the Robert...