Word: tioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narrow alleys, he could purchase-with "no sweat"-scarce Army supplies, like light bulbs and radio batteries. There were piles of leather jackets from U.S. mail-order houses, gleaming rows of cheap watches smuggled in from Japan, gay shelves of Japanese cosmetics, even stacks of C-ra-tion cans. "You want buy, sah-jint? Numbah...
...Heaven and Ike's in the White House and has a commendable score in golf and a long string of trout ... To many, shocked by the deep-freeze-mink-coat-elec-tion-campaign mess, it should now be regrettably obvious that the electorate sacrificed Abe Lincoln Stevenson for General Ulysses Grant Eisenhower. Everybody likes Ike, but not everything and everybody that Ike likes...
Dishwashers & Antiques. Reconstruc tion of the 54-room presidential mansion has wiped away the rats, the cockroaches, the sagging floors, the drafts and faulty plumbing which made life miserable for First Ladies of other administrations. The house now boasts a white and stainless-steel electric kitchen in which meals for the largest banquet can be prepared, three automatic dishwashers, a laundry, silk-smooth parquet floors, three elevators, 16 bathrooms, and new paint, new cur- tains, new draperies, as well as its price less old antiques and paintings...
...left a curriculum which tempered Eliot's elective system with his own system of Concentration and Distribution. To President Conant was left the adaptation of this curriculum to the needs of the modern mid-twentieth century world. Conant's "General Education" plan, which replaced the old Concentration, Distribu- tion scheme, was really an extension of it. It sought to mitigate Eliot's elective system by requiring the student to take a full-year introductory course in each of the three main divisions of learning, the Humanities, the Social Sciences and the Natural Sciences...
...TIME'S caption was taken from the London Times' special book, Britain's Homage to 28,000 American Dead. Said a spokesman for the Times: "The cap tion should have made clear that the American Memorial Chapel is directly behind the new high altar." For a view from within the Chapel...