Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the case of Teacher Russell was a highly embarrassing item on the Los Angeles board of education's agenda. Was it a case of censorship? Superintendent of Schools Ellis A. Jarvis pooh-poohed the suggestion, conveniently ruled that it was just a matter of obeying the law against selling books in a classroom. Should Teacher Russell then be disciplined? Some 35 teachers at U.C.L.A. and Santa Monica City College rose to her defense in an angry petition charging "a breach of academic freedom." Said Florence Russell: "If reminding students of their rightful literary heritage is an offense...
...results by applying military-organization methods to the vast complexities of Continental Can. He decentralized Continental's muscle-bound operations, gave wide responsibilities to men in the field. He mapped out staff duties clearly, set up a system of written reports and regular executive meetings (with prepared agenda to save time). Shortly after he took over, he decided that packaging was undergoing a major shift from cans to other materials, acquired more than a dozen firms in glass, plastic and paper products to protect Continental's flank. He spent heavily on research to develop new products, e.g., plastic...
...Pyrenees flank in better shape, De Gaulle could continue to the next item on his agenda for France, expressed in the next sentence of his memoirs: "To make of it one of the three world powers, to become one day, if need be, the arbiter between the Soviet and Anglo-Saxon camps...
...Suez, he gave top priority to repairing Britain's strained U.S. relations. Since his election victory in October, he has shifted his concern to Europe. That was the meaning of Selwyn Lloyd's visit to Paris last week, which produced more assurances than achievement. Next on the agenda: a long-postponed state visit to London this week by Konrad Adenauer...
Worm's Progress. But if Germany offered no lively hopes as a topic on the agenda, why did anyone expect much on disarmament? The hopeful signs were few. Delegates from the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union have been meeting for a year in Geneva to negotiate a treaty banning nuclear-weapons tests. Early last week there was a nicker of progress. Soviet Conference Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin launched into a 45-minute attack on towering (6 ft. 4 in.) U.S. Ambassador James Wadsworth. According to Tsarapkin, Wadsworth's insistence that Russia must agree to study U.S. data...