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...Senator Scott, I think you're paranoid," Gregory shot back-to which Scott muttered in reply that those testifying before the Committee were "brainwashed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collective Hits Congress; Urges Adoption of Treaty | 4/29/1971 | See Source »

Treasury's course was to announce firmly that there would be no change in the U.S. price for gold. The announcement had the desired effect: at week's end gold prices fell back-to $37.22 in London-and steadied. But since gold prices still stood at a level at which Central banks could buy from the U.S. and sell elsewhere at a profit, most bankers expected that the storm had not yet blown over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Gold Rush | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...talking," and was "quite firm." Later that day, the President issued a statement hinting that if the two sides failed to reach agreement by the time he got back from his vacation in California, he would invoke the Taft-Hartley Act's provision calling for an 80-day back-to work period when a strike threatens to "imperil the national health or safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Stand on Principle | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...pushed the employee stock-purchase plan that has made company stockholders out of 45% of A. T. & T.'s employees. In 1927 he opened the first commercial service between New York and London over the radiotelephone circuit, and in 1935 sped the first call around the world-and back-to a vice president sitting only 50 feet away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Harvard had led the swing to cafeteria-style learning (where students pick & choose what they want to learn) in the days of President Charles W. (Five-Foot Shelf) Eliot. And it was Harvard, under President James Bryant Conant, that in August most clearly denned the swing back-to required courses, a "core curriculum." Colgate was already at it when Harvard's famed report on General Education in a Free Society appeared. Princeton, Yale and a score of other colleges have likewise heralded a new dawn of coherence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Vassar Calls It Romage | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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