Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their current rates (30% on the first $25,000 and 52% on the rest), instead of permitting them to drop as scheduled on April 1. Humphrey argued that holding the present rates is the only way to balance the budget; the committee, including Chairman Byrd, duly supported his view. Said Humphrey with genuine earnestness: "What we need, and what we need badly, in this country, as soon as we can get our house in order to do it, is a general reduction that will affect all taxpayers." Harry Byrd nodded approval...
...repudiation of the report was in special reference to one sentence of Aisner's, which read, "In view of Smith's irresponsible and malicious misrepresentations and their compelling implication that the funds of the paper have been misappropriated by me, I felt entirely justified in withholding these documents...
...Ring of Truth. However naive the cumbersome plots may seem to more sophisticated readers, confession editors argue that they faithfully reflect their audience's view of society. Unlike white-collar women, the Macfadden people explain, Wage-Town women "seem to see all men as more powerful figures: dominant, independent, sexually active and demanding, and, over all, as more mature than women." Says Editor Dorrance: "In the movies the taxi driver, the waitress, the drop-forge operator are comic relief. In our magazine they're the hero and heroine. We have no comic figures. Women, after all. have little...
BIRTH CONTROL. "Some Protestants speak of birth control as a positive virtue. They are hurt and perhaps humiliated that their code of personal morality in this matter is held to be grossly wrong by their Catholic friends. The Catholic Church views this practice as contrary to the natural law, that is, to the law of human reason itself. The birth-control question is only a part of her total philosophical and theological view of the right relations between husband and wife...
There is meaning in the most brilliantly realized of Kovarsky's works, a series of seven large (40 in. by 52 in.) canvases depicting the seven-day creation of the world (see color page). Shown last fall at Manhattan's Jewish Museum, the series will be on view for the last time in Manhattan next week at a reception given by Israeli Minister Mordecai Kidron. Then it will be shipped to Israel (where it will be shown later this year in the museums of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa), along with the stacks of canvases Kovarsky has completed...