Word: actioneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Council President Edward L. Croman '60 said a college-wide referendum on rejoining, similar to the one which followed last year's Council decision to withdraw, is a good possibility. Croman said such a referendum could come subsequent to or as a part of any future Student Council action...
...picture tube is accused of many things, but rarely of being a revolutionary force. But that is precisely what it is, holds San Francisco State College's Samuel I. Hayakawa (Language in Action), a leading general semanticist. The most dramatic way in which TV has worked for social change, Hayakawa last week told the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.'s conference on public service programing, is shown by the problem of integration...
...What about Chevy?" It was the kind of moment that every aggressive young executive dreams about. Cole replied with cool confidence: "I just happen to have some plans for expanding Chevrolet engineering, and I'm ready to show them any time you wish." G.M. appreciates that kind of action. Quipped Charlie Wilson to Cole: "I'll bet that's the first time you ever had your plans approved without submitting them." Cole's staff grew to 2,900 engineers...
TRUSTBUSTERS' THREATS of court action forced Texaco and Superior Oil Co. (Calif.) to drop merger plans (TIME, June 29). Merger would have given Texaco, second largest integrated U.S. producer and refiner, the advantage of Superior's huge reserves in Venezuela and U.S. Victory was Justice Department's biggest since it halted Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. merger last year...
...Time for Action. Orde Wingate came into the world violently (his mother was near to death in childbirth), lived violently, died violently. He had an intense feeling of mission, and believed he was fated "to lead a country" to glory; sometimes he would add harshly, "Any country would do." His first choice was Palestine. Posted to the Holy Land in 1936 as a British intelligence officer, he flung himself with typical passion into the Zionist cause. The Jews, knowing that Wingate was born into an evangelical Protestant sect (the Plymouth Brethren) and was a distant relative of the famed Lawrence...