Word: paste
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...practically all the Congolese political demands in the hope that independence will result in happy economic cooperation. But in the absence of full assurance that a Congolese government would guarantee Belgian property, shares in colonial corporations have dropped 50% to 60% in the Brussels stock market during the past year...
...South Africans one awkward test of compassion still remained. A relief fund for the survivors had climbed past the $300,000 mark. In South Africa there is no racial equality even in death; compensation laws grant a white miner's wife a pension for life of up to $93 a month. But a Bantu widow gets only a lump sum payment, which, if prudently invested, would give a return calculated at $9 a month. At week's end keepers of the fund were trying to decide whether or not to apply a similar ratio...
Alger Hiss, 55, released in 1954 after a 44-month stretch in a federal pen for perjury, is interested in a job more in keeping with his not inconsiderable abilities. In the past two years he worked his way up to a $20,000-a-year salary as administrative assistant to R. Andrew Smith, a ladies' comb manufacturer. Hiss disclosed last week that he has quit, but kept mum on his new venture. Ex-Employer Smith had qualified praise for him: "An indispensable man," but not quite "a dedicated businessman." Observed Smith vaguely: "Mr. Hiss ought to work...
Lowell's Return. Of 155 former Fellows (20 are now at Harvard), 128 have become top scholars at 36 U.S. (and three foreign) colleges and universities. Harvard has the lion's share, with 42 on its faculty (including three deans), followed by California with 14. Among past J.F.s (ranging in age from 26 to 55) are two Chevaliers of the French Legion of Honor, six Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, nine Fellows of the American Physical Society, 23 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...deeply, and for what cause, should the press dig into a man's past? In a free press there can be no hard and fast answer to such a question. But last week there seemed to be a clear case of a great newspaper having gone too far, and for the wrong reasons...