Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...still a live political issue. Politician Harry Truman had recognized the potential magic of a gadget that promised something for everybody. He was also cagily capitalizing on the farmers' new worry. In the past two years, farm income-despite high prices and high supports-had bounced downward about 20%. This was mostly a natural decline from artificial alltime price highs in wartime, but, citing the price drops in a direful voice, the President implied that it wouldn't happen again-provided the farmers voted for the Brannan Plan and, incidentally, the Democrats...
...went out of his way to get to know some of the problems of India, and its people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, now Prime Minister. When the Punjab hired Mayer, Nehru said: "Let this be a new town symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered with the traditions of the past." Designer Mayer was delighted with the prospect. Said he: "To a planner it is tremendously exciting. We start with just a blank sheet of paper and do as wonderfully or as badly as we can. It is an architect's dream...
...denied that he had committed the three murders, the four assaults and robberies charged against him in the past month. All he wanted was to finish the jail term and take a rest. The hills of the favelas, he said, still tuckered him, and he had no place else to go. "I couldn't leave Rio," said Dried Meat, "because I would get lost...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
Much of the purely technical material that was part of Economics 1 in the past will be dropped and taught instead in the Department's rejuvenated tutorial program. Smithies thinks this system will be superior because previously he and his colleagues have found that the purely technical material taught in elementary courses has to be re-provided later...