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...Crimson couldn't shake its inferiority complex. Columbia swept the first round 9-0 and gave up only 12 touch us as Harvard attacked indecisively...
...Saia appointment, said some observers, is an attempt to shake one of those votes--that of Mrs. Cornolia B. Wheeler--from DeGuglielmo...
...crowns to the dollar.) "Consumers have not had a large enough influence on assortment, quality and range of production," the preamble continued, and production is so low that "living standards in this country greatly lag behind those of mature capitalist countries." Frankly admitting that it will take years to shake the economy out of its planning straitjacket, the committee justifies the switch in ringing words: "The development of the socialist way of life has nothing in common with the antiquated ideas of ascetic socialism that do not take into account the material needs and interests of the people...
...massive shake-up came little more than a month after the national election in which Pearson confidently expected to win a real mandate for his 29-month minority government but came away from the polls with the same old minority. One of the top men to go was Pearson's erstwhile Finance Minister, Walter Gordon, an old crony whose advice led the Liberals into the dogfall election. Gordon resigned immediately after the election. Of the old ministers, only a few came out of the shuffle with increased stature, and the most important of them is Gordon's replacement...
...shake-up put new life into the whole system, inspired parental excitement over the schools. When Newcomer proposed an astonishing $21 million school bond issue in 1963, the P.T.A. put 5,000 people to work stuffing information envelopes and plugging the cause. It passed 7.5 to 1. Only 15 months later he proposed a $38 million issue-and it passed better than 4 to 1. Since his arrival, two high schools, three junior highs, 20 elementary schools and 20 additions have been built...