Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Magazine racks around the Square cater to a wide range of student interests, offering reading that's not on the reading lists. Some periodicals emphasize self-help: "Seven Ways to Improve Your Sex Technique," and "You, Too, Can Drink Anyone Under the Table." Others offer household hints, such as "How to Cook a Man," and "How to Prospect for Uranium." Educational articles on "Science Conquers Sex" and "The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits," vie with sports features like "French Girls on a Six-Day Grind" (women cyclists...
...boys read them to relax," explained a Brother in the Camarada Brothers' Valeteria. For students who relax better with pictures, most of the magazines offer studies of women on beaches, women on the stage, and women at home...
...presentation that "The Astonished Heart" falls down. The acting could not have been much better, and Anthony Darnborough's direction was excellent throughout. It is the plot, which can only offer vague psychological glimpses to pierce its essentially raw triangular base, that prevents the picture from achieving great stature...
...automobiles and trucks during the nine weeks. And still the negotiators bargained in the Federal Conciliator's salmon-pink Sheraton Hotel room. The union's demands: an increase of 10? an hour to provide "adequate" monthly pensions and insurance benefits. Two weeks ago management offered a $30 million pension fund to pay $100 a month (including social security) on retirement at 65 or over. It insisted its plan promised more than United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther had asked for. Reuther spurned the company's offer as "fancy bookkeeping." "Deliberately misrepresented," retorted Chrysler. Then...
...President Andrew H. Phelps called the truckers' use of public highways "transportation by taxation," warned that truck lines "can ruin but not replace rail service." From now on, said Phelps, Westinghouse, which spends $40 million a year on transportation, will always ship by rail except when the truckers offer bargains in rates which the rails decline to meet. One probable reason for the announcement: Westinghouse makes locomotive generators, controls and switching equipment, owns the largest single bloc of stock (21%) of the $86.7 million Baldwin Locomotive Works...