Word: point
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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STEEL SLUMP will soon force 25% cut in the jobless benefits corporations pay to laid-off workers. Reason: corporate funds have been drained to critical point. Since funds started three years ago, $132 million has been paid...
...tight, slacks are the fastest growing item in milady's wardrobe across the U.S., with 30 million pairs sold last year v. only 6,000,000 a decade ago. The pants boom has brought a revival of the culotte-pants cut to hang like skirts-to the point where designers are now making culottes in all sizes and fabrics, including culotte Bermudas and knee-length chiffon hostess models. So popular have dressy slacks become for evening entertaining that women guests are often trapped by a kind of fashion one-upwomanship: they wear dressy frocks and high heels for dinner...
...stories of men at war seem simple to the point of casualness. But in Umaru he conveys in five short pages a deep feeling for Africa and for the ever-present officer-enlisted man relationship. His touch with children is just as sure; their cruelties, independence and singlemindedness are as transparent to him as they are incomprehensible to most adults. And the ironies of middle age hold no mysteries for him, either. The Breakout is an almost classic story of what happens to the poor devil who knows that neither his wife nor children really need him. When the victim...
These trends in enrollment point to a possible argument against the House program, for at pesent a sizable amount of money is being spent on a small number of students, most of whom are either receiving regular tutorial or are joining seminars for motives apart from intellectual curiosity. Against these facts must be weighed the claim of the seminar participant that the groups are open to any student wishing to join them, and that the topics cover interesting materials not found in regular courses...
Agreeing with Lindsay on this point, Owen Lattimore attempted to clarify the "popular misconceptions" regarding admission of Red China to the U.N. Lattimore, once an adviser to Chiang KaiShek, emphasized that China already has a seat in the U.N. The question is not one of admitting a new nation, but of expelling one group and accepting another as China...