Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Furcolo's biggest bombshell did not fall among the economy-minded Republicans, who narrowly control the upper house of the General Court. Although he was elected with heavy support from organized labor, the new Governor has proposed to raise added tax revenue by a state-wide three percent limited sales tax, traditionally the breadwinner's anathema. His party, meanwhile--under Senate leader John E. Powers and buttressed by a detailed survey prepared by Arnold M. Soloway, assistant professor of Economics--has stood strongly behind temporary relief through eliminating loopholes in the existing structure. To the terror of the Associated Industries...
...Committee will consider problems of the freshman year in the morning and the upper class curriculum in the afternoon. The agenda also calls for a meeting at 4 p.m. with the Committee on Educational Policy
...people) and the "Egyptianization" of foreign banks and agencies has resulted in a devastating dislocation of the economy. Nasser still seems to be holding the popularity of the Egyptian masses, whose miserably low standard of living cannot be much worsened. But there are increasing mutters of discontent among the upper and middle classes, who include not only the old pashas but also the best of Egypt's professional and business people, who are Western-minded...
...bring music closer to home because they are in residential areas, e.g., the new auditorium of New York University's Law School in Washington Square, which serves as a musical center for lower Manhattan; the wood-lined, acoustically outstanding Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum on upper Fifth Avenue, which after three years rivals Town Hall as the city's leading recital hall. Taken all together, New York's out-of-the-way music-comparable to the busy off-Broadway theater-keeps the city astir with the ferment of new musical ideas. Some...
Basic Skills. For upper-level retarded children (with IQs from 51 to 80) who have no emotional or physical disabilities, the public schools in many cities now provide special classes. There the slow learners acquire such basic skills as reading, arithmetic, telling time, using the telephone, handling money. With patient training, most of these youngsters may eventually find jobs. Some schools teach their girl students how to put on lipstick and dress attractively; boys learn how to call a girl for a date, and small groups, after careful instruction, venture out to dine in restaurants. For the "trainables," with...