Word: normalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lately, many Mexicans have been demanding that Pemex be run as a business, with normal profits for reinvestment in development. But López Mateos is almost forced by his natural nationalistic inclination to keep the state paramount and Pemex its old, slow-moving self. He might also be inclined...
...sunny room at Smiths Hospital, Henley-on-Thames, England, children sat at small tables last week putting colored pegs into holes. Except that the children were psychotics-mostly the scarred offspring of disturbed parents-the room had all the friendly calm of any normal kindergarten. What made it doubly so was the children's custodians, placid-looking young women in their early 20s, who spoke little but seemed unusually affectionate. They sat with their arms around the children, frequently hugged and kissed them. It was no chore to the women; they were all mental defectives, who think...
...have textiles sagged during "normal" times? One reason is that the industry is a clutter of 500 manufacturers, many of them small, inefficient and hampered by outdated machinery. Though the industry invested $4.4 billion in new plants and equipment during the past decade, an estimated 65% of its machinery is still obsolete. Unlike the automobile or steel industry, the textile industry has no real giants to set the pace in modernization. The largest textile company, Burlington Mills (fiscal 1958 sales: $651 million), has only 5% of the industry sales. All the manufacturers are fiercely independent, have never joined...
Mixi. A midget-sized (1 pt.) portable plastic mixer for cocktails, milk shakes, etc. will be put on sale by the Sibert Mfg. Co., Newark. The mixer will run for four months of normal use on two flashlight batteries. Price...
Quincy House will also alleviate somewhat the large number of converted rooms. The Administration will "start" to attain the normal ratio of one bedroom to one student, but the construction of Quincy House will not at all bring this about, he added...