Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath this wide sweep of policy was a bedrock Administration decision to make the sound dollar the basis for the U.S. economic system, and to make a sound U.S. economic system the keystone of a free-world economic policy based on growing prosperity through freer trade. The drive was the President's own. But the man behind the drive was a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), mild-mannered Texan with a lingering touch of the prairies in his soft twang: Robert Bernerd Anderson, 49, Secretary of the Treasury and the strong man of Dwight Eisenhower's Cabinet...
...about complying with the spirit of the IMF and GATT meetings. Britain wiped out quotas on most U.S. goods. France pared some tariffs on U.S. imports, scrapped a batch of import quotas, promised to get rid of the rest within two years. Japan promised to cancel restrictions on a wide array of U.S. goods by early...
...Psychiatrist E. Gustave Newman reported last week to the Gerontological Society. From a study of 149 couples aged 60 to 93, the Newman research team found that 70% continued to have sexual relations up to age 70 - and some of them into their late 80s. The frequency showed a wide range, from four or five times a year to three times a week, with higher frequencies in the lower socio-economic classes. Main reason for discontinuance of marital relations: ill health...
...Harvard and M.I.T. professors have joined a state-wide Adlai Stevenson for President organization, Marshall Kaplan, a graduate student at M.I.T. and co-ordinator of the recently-founded group, announced yesterday. Names of the professors will not be disclosed until the organization opens an office in Boston in January...
...this contest, left wing Larry Ekpebu will pose the biggest threat to the Eli defense. With the middle blocked up, the varsity must rely on its wings, and Ekepebu could break the game wide open if he comes up with one of his spectacular shows of dribbling and shooting. Right wing Dick McIntosh is hardly a scoring menace, but his mid-field dribbling skill will be indispensable...