Word: asso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Bankers Asso ciation and the Association of Stock Exchange Firms are working on a scheme to imprint on all stocks a magnetic number identifying the issuer; the number could be read by an optical scanner hooked to a computer. The real solution is to get rid of the old-fashioned certificates entirely. Last week N.Y.S.E. President Robert W. Haack promised to do just that. "We are going to automate the stock certificate out of business by substituting a punch card," he said. "We just can't keep up with the flood of business unless...
Like many another radio-station operator, John M. Norris, of Red Lion, Pa., stopped by the Federal Communications Commission headquarters when he was in Washington recently. What made his visit notable was that Norris, who also happens to be a Bible Presbyte rian minister, brought along six asso ciates. All seven of them planted themselves outside the door of FCC Chairman Rosel Hyde, bowed their heads and began a pray-in, asking the Great Commissioner up yonder to force a decision on a TV franchise application that the FCC has been sitting...
...significant is its heralding of an even broader trend: the increasing use of extended classical forms by rock musicians. Half of a new LP by the British duo Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde is devoted to The Progress Suite, a breezy pastiche that gibes at complacency and hypocrisy. The Asso ciation have begun to perform their liturgical-cum-martial Requiem for the Masses-included in one of their LPs -as a musical playlet, much as The Doors act out the visionary lyrics of The End and The Unknown Soldier. Newcomer Van Dyke Parks has cast his first album...
Labor's militancy is also prompted in part by inter-and intra-union rivalries, which force each faction to try to win more than its competitor. A bitter feud between the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-affiliated American Federation of Teachers and the older National Education Asso ciation has escalated teachers' demands in the past few years. Similarly, Walter Reuther may have been less ready for his U.A.W. to settle with Ford because of his own longstanding differences with A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany...
While at Harvard, the Institute asso- ciates--prominent men in public life--have met with students and Faculty members almost exclusively in private meetings. This practice, intended by the Institute to foster better understanding between scholars and government officials, has been a bone of contention with...