Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your article in the May 25 issue regarding Galveston should have been captioned "V for Vicious" instead of "V for Vice." By stating that Galveston is having a wide-open bonanza in gambling and prostitution and that Galveston is the shame of Texas you are not reporting the facts. Also, you commit a gross injustice against our city by spreading such rot all over creation. There are plenty of cities in Texas and in the nation that make Galveston look like Orphan Annie's doll's house...
...back in Oregon, Democratic leaders blanched in dismay. Wayne Morse had left the G.O.P. in wreckage. Now, as a Democrat, he was proposing to blow his latest party wide open. Said a top Oregon Democrat distractedly: "This is harmful to the party. There's a hard core for Neuberger and a very hard core for Morse. But what the hell about the middle? It gets down to this: What good can come out of this for the party...
...teach democracy and science in the sense of indoctrination?" Certainly this is a valid point; American youth learn the democratic method through student government and the democratic hagiography in their history courses. Democracy, however, is an ideology almost universally approved in the United States, and its wide-spread acceptance leads many to over look the fact that education about democracy has been replaced by indoctrination in democracy...
While over a quarter of the students at Harvard College are in some way identified with Judaism, only a tenth of them are members of Hillel. The others hold a wide variety of political and religious views, according to the questionnaire, and a large number indicated that their ideas were still in a state of flux. Some of their answers indicated a confusion, or at least a transition in many attitudes towards religion...
...recent Harvard institution. The Class of '59 was the last class to have the pleasure of having a "Miss Radcliffe." After Miss Radcliffe '59 had been chosen, the Radcliffe Administration ruled that Radcliffe girls would no longer be allowed to participate in the event. Apparently, involvement in a college-wide beauty contest had not been beneficial to the later academic standing of several of the girls selected...