Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuba, humble peasants marveled at the bountiful leader, Fidel Castro, who is going to give them land, and the workers in the cities cheered the arbitrary rent cut that Castro decreed. But as Castro got ready to go to the U.S. this week, the middle and upper classes, who financed his revolt to restore an elected democracy, uneasily realized that Castro plans a long overhauling of Cuban society before anyone goes to the polls. See THE HEMISPHERE, The First 100 Days...
...extraordinary number of sophomores in the first two boats has proven rather a surprise on a squad which contains so many good upper-classmen. They are there, according to Coolidge, "because even though they have lacked form they have made the boat...
Concern over using the Stadium rose when the Forum learned that the Stadium's upper bleachers would not be lighted for the night-time speech. This would make it very difficult for police to protect Castro from possible assassins concealing themselves in the bleachers...
...that basis, Bonnier's choice for editor was obvious. Well-born Carl-Adam Nycop, now 49, had been headed for a stuffy life of upper-class responsibility when his fellow junior aristocrats at Sweden's swank Lundsberg boarding school began to mock him as a runt (he is now 5 ft. 7 in.). Nycop was so embittered by the attacks that he rebelled against his convention-bound background, to become a news-and-be-damned reporter. In 1938 he was tapped by Bonnier to start the LiFE-like picture weekly Ssee, soon showed an executive's firm...
...Milions of dollars in scholarship money now going to alleviate the pain of the upper middle class should go to high-ability students who are in real need," Monro noted. The average family income of scholarship applicants at Harvard is $6,900--and these family incomes are rising faster than the average national income...