Word: demand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robin Howard (Josie) and David Hooks (Jim) lack the aptitude for character work that these early scenes demand, and Michael Murray's direction, competent for the most part, does not make good the deficiency. Miss Howard works at being a great big slob with more assiduity than conviction. Mr. Hooks, charged with the equally difficult task of erecting a convincing facade around Jim's lunar desolation, elects a vaudeville entertainer's spring step and circus-barker patter; but it is the actor, not the character, who seems not quite able to bring...
GENEVA, Nov. 3--The Soviets have unexpectedly agreed to a Western demand for re-examination of methods to police underground nuclear explosions...
...immigrant ship Castel Felice docked in Melbourne one breezy day last week, 63 suntanned German girls paraded down the gangplank. Like 74 "flying fraeu-leins" who arrived by chartered plane a few days earlier, they were marriageable girls brought in from West Germany by the Australian government at the demand of members of a powerful new Australian pressure group: bachelors, among the thousands of European immigrants, who have a hard time finding someone to marry in a sparsely settled land where men still outnumber women...
...Villain: Congress. Banker Alexander agrees with the general view that part of money's tightness-and the highest interest rates (5% and up) in 28 years-is the result of demand for credit spawned by the strong upsurge of the new boom. But it is also the result of fumbled fiscal policy. Who is to blame for that? Says Alexander: "The Administration's policy is good, and the Treasury is doing all it can.'' The real villain, he says, is Congress. It has refused to raise the 47% ceiling rate on long-term Treasury bonds, thus...
...Dean's office is responsible to the vice-president for Student Affairs, who works with a Trustee Committee of Student Affairs. The University Committee is chosen by the faculty senate (all those holding the rank of assistant professor or higher), the President, and the Undergraduate Council. In cases which demand disciplinary action, the University Committee of Discipline convenes. This committee consists of five men from the faculty or administration and three students from either the men's or women's Undergraduate Council, dependent upon the gender of the wrongdoer. "In cases that involve both a man and woman," Peters smilingly...