Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scandal about-some well-known man, Crome would disguise it thinly in two or three chapters of a projected second novel, submit it to the victim through a go-between, and cheerfully agree to suppress it for a price. After World War I, Blackmailer Crome ruefully relates, the British upper classes lost their manners as well as their money, and his brand of crime no longer paid...
...Faculty also voted to allow entrants, when "their superior achievement in secondary school is considered to have contributed significantly to the objectives of the General Education program," to omit one or two elementary GE courses and meet the requirements with additional upper level courses. Permission to omit these courses will be denied or granted under regulations formulated by the Special Standing Committee and the Committee on General Education. Under the same procedure, men will be excused from Gen Ed Ahf they show superior ability in English composition, "in appropriate achievement tests or by other prescribed means...
...eligible for advanced standing the Faculty voted that they be assigned to experienced Freshman Advisers who will aid them in scheduling appropriate upper level courses...
...zero weather, little (pop. 18,000) Falun was jammed with some 50,000 ski-mad visitors. In the special jumping event, normally a Norwegian monopoly, the Finns, unveiling a modified "aerodynamic" technique, got their first triumph. Leaning out over his skis in an exaggerated bend that added his whole upper body to his soaring surface, Finland's Matti Pietikainen made jumps of 251 and 256 feet for an easy first place. Russia scored when bantam-size (5 ft. 3 in. 120 Ibs.) Vladimir Kusin, a Leningrad student, beat Finland's Veikko Hakulinen by 26 seconds...
...when "economic royalists" and "privileged princes" were blamed by F.D.R. for the Depression, the basic New Deal tax policy was to boost taxes in the upper brackets, keep them light on the "little man," and thus try to spur consumer spending and get the wheels of industry turning again. The Republicans think there is a better way to keep the economy healthy. Their method, said Dwight Eisenhower, is "to create an environment in which men are eager to make new jobs, to acquire new tools of production, to ... design new products and develop new markets." The tax program that...