Word: overcrowdedness
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Something for Senators. Bickering was fiercest over a $10 million appropriation to build the Senate a new office building with auditorium, movie projection rooms, swimming pool and garage. Roared Louisiana's Allen J. ("Little Bull") Ellender: "I say we ought to examine our consciences." New Mexico's Dennis...
This week, over Manhattan's station WNBC (Tues. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.), the nation's lowest-paid disc jockey entered the overcrowded field. White-maned, 63-year-old Leopold Stokowski, for 24 years conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, began a four-week show. Stokowski will play his own...
U.S. schools, cried the National Education Association last week, are like the old woman who lived in a shoe: they have so many children (25 million) they don't know what to do. The cause, said N.E.A., is not simply the swelling birthrate. Just as important is the fact...
One department that the New York Post (see above), like most newspapers, had neglected to sensationalize was its' real-estate section. Last week the Post contributed a prize example of the kind of prose that is as overcrowded and badly constructed as a slum tenement:
None of the newcomers had papers to show the authorities. They were illegal immigrants. They had left Spain and the Canaries because they needed work and probably, though they would not talk about it, because they were anti-Franco. Each had paid 4,000 pesetas ($367.20) for passage. "Hungry guys...