Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations. Your Nov. 9 cover story on Senator Stuart Symington was the most masterful exercise in subtle poisoning since the Borgias went legit. A truly fascinating blend of lux, veritas and hogwash...
...chief reasons for this increase, Medical School officials say, is their student financial aid program. During the past decade, financial aid to medical students has gone up 740 per cent. During the same period, tuition rates went up only 73 per cent. Since 62 per cent of the School's tuition money is used for financial aid, officials feel the raise is justified...
...Charlie, trapped on the MTA, never able to escape from the miles of tunnels beneath Boston streets. The MTA, however, has received a more stinging notoriety this year--it has the dubious distinction of losing the most money of any American public transit system. Last year the MTA went $16 million into the red, which was assessed upon the 14 communities served directly by the Authority. And with recent demands made by the Carmen's Union, which includes two-thirds of the system's employees, the deficit conceivably could reach $40 million...
...office's voluminous releases to hometown newspapers, Pittenger maintains, are valuable tools for the enticement of the intelligent, athletically-oriented high school student. Hometown releases, he thinks, have a tremendous influence on secondary school boys "who wonder how the fellow who went to Harvard is doing...
...time I can remember first having ambitions for a career, I wanted to be a newspaperman." Pittenger was born in Kansas City, Mo., but he moved often, attending 15 schools in seven states. Constantly on the move, he had only one thing to take an interest in everywhere he went--sports. It was easy to combine games and journalism "into one big word--sportswriting," he says...