Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came at the right time, for piled at the door of the 69-year-old President were enough major problems to give a younger man the shakes. At the top of the heap was the steel strike, nearly four months old and blighting the general economy. Instead of reaching agreement under presidential and public pressure, as Ike had hoped, the industry and the United Steelworkers were digging in for a prolonged battle of principle (see The Economy). Digging in behind them were such major industries as copper, shipping, railroads and meat packing in what promised to be the greatest labor...
...problems, the President was most impatient to get on with the missions of personal diplomacy that he felt might lead toward a hardheaded world peace. A polite Eisenhower nudge brought an agreement from France's President Charles de Gaulle to a pre-summit meeting of Western chiefs of state (Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Britain's Macmillan, West Germany's Adenauer) on Dec. 19 in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beyond that lay a summit conference with Khrushchev next spring. Between the Western meeting and the long-heralded summit, Ike planned to make his promised visit to Moscow...
...industry pressagents handed out releases that left no doubt that the meeting was going to be another flop: "Anxious as they are to see an end to this devastating strike which the union has forced upon the country . . . the eleven steel companies must continue to resist surrender [to] an agreement which will promote inflation, produce rising production costs and perpetuate wasteful, inefficient practices...
...program is one of the virtually insoluble problems of General Education. The most important difficulty--that there is not the remotest agreement on what, correctly speaking, ought to be taught, is one which is coming into other areas, as the personnel problem has. While the rest of General Education has been received with general approval over the last decade, Nat Sci has not. One of its founders admitted last spring that the program as it stood was a failure...
...voluble baron was confident of amicable relations: "The Big Four can't even agree to meet together. We will show the way, and reach total agreement in one day." The number of delegates was left up to the individual countries. They eliminated the veto problem by eliminating votes. Falz-Fein was chosen president, without a vote, and he rang a cowbell to bring the first meeting to order in a hilltop motel, the only one in Liechtenstein...