Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Coast for applicants," he asked, "when there are plenty of local boys, willing and able to do Harvard work?" Nothing that "there are many students in this area who are superior to our present marginal students," he explained that many of these boys are "scared away from applying by the high cost of residence...
...reports. During an average 1958 week, more than 50 million U.S. adults went to church-nearly a million more than at the previous peak in 1955. This represents 54% of the population in the Midwest, 52% of the East, 51% of the South, and only 35% of the Far West. Women attended more faithfully than men (55% to 45%). Roman Catholics, for whom weekly Mass is obligatory, were more regular than Protestants by 74% to 44%. But the Protestant showing compares favorably with Britain (nearly 80% Protestant), where only 14% of the adults said they had attended church...
...future power reactors. It is building the largest U.S. all-nuclear power station (cost: more than $45 million) at Dresden, Ohio for Commonwealth Edison of Chicago, and a $19.5 million reactor at Eureka, Calif, for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., has been selected to construct nuclear power stations in Switzerland, West Germany and Italy...
Cordiner will not have to retire until 1965, but he has planned his retirement as carefully as G.E.'s future (friends are convinced he has the date and hour marked on his calendar right now). Four years ago he bought a cattle ranch on Florida's west coast to prepare for his retirement. There, on 1,820 acres, he has set up "decentralization on the farm," intends to build a "Cordiner Motel" some distance away for his visiting daughters and their families, under his longtime policy of "decentralization in the home...
When Beth Sumner goes to India from the U.S. to stay with her sister, who is married to an American medical missionary, she walks right into an East-West fracas. Beth finds the gate to the mission compound barred by wire and empty oil drums, with Indian pickets waving slogans -MISSIONARIES GO HOME. Her sister and brother-in-law tell the story behind the commotion. Eight years before, they adopted an unwanted, illegitimate Indian infant and raised him as one of their own family. Now the Indian father, a merchant, is demanding him back, and missionaries and merchants are grappling...