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...committeemen and women present welcomed Alcorn's carefully drawn nine-point reorganizing program -two million more precinct workers, year-long fund-raising campaigns, more emphasis on college-age voters and teenagers, etc. But when it came to the philosophy that the remodeled machine should push, conservatives were less than enthusiastic. And they had the meeting's stronger voices...
Worms notwithstanding, Teacher Duff plans to end her year-long Stateside furlough this month, fly back to continue educating the Amueshas. Her task: to teach the Indians to read, to transcribe literature-including the Bible-into Amuesha. using a phonetic alphabet she helped devise...
...Successfully countered Nikita Khrushchev's year-long campaign to bluff, panic and cajole the allies into an empty summit meeting designed only to divide allies and get Western acceptance of Communist conquests...
Finishing a year-long project of research into American high school problems, Conant stated that New York schools are operating under "special social pressures" from parents who want their children to go to college...
...largest industrial bond offering in U.S. history. But before signing a contract with its underwriters, Sears said it wanted to take a careful look at conditions in the bond market. What particularly alarmed Sears and other prospective corporate-bond issuers was the situation in U.S. bonds. After a year-long rise, Government bonds were going through the fastest, worst shakedown in postwar history, causing dealers to employ such expressions as ''chaos," "rout" and "panic...