Word: betters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INVOKING Taft-Hartley in the dock and steel strikes, President Eisenhower last week set in motion a device which, despite continuing criticism, has had better than fair success over the past twelve years. The law's aim is to ensure production for an 80-day "cooling-off period" in strikes or threatened strikes found to imperil the "national health or safety," thereby giving management and labor a chance to resume negotiations toward a new contract. How it works...
...Keith Glennan, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, called for a "sane course"-which in NASA bafflegab seems to mean the same program that has kept the U.S. lagging behind. Roy Johnson, head of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, could offer no better proposal than the creation of a "psychological warfare department" to "answer" Soviet space feats...
...face of current facts. Thus, by 1952, after three wars under Democratic administrations, the G.O.P. had established itself in the popular mind as the party most likely to keep world peace. The seven peaceful years of the Eisenhower Administration have done little to change that image for better or worse. Last week a Gallup poll showed these results on the question of which party is most likely to keep...
Against this formidable foe, Labor had waged an aggressive "We can do it better" campaign. This display of vigor, reinforced by the unexpectedly effective performance of Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell, upset Tory plans for a quiet election and turned the three-week campaign into the toughest-talking election battle since Labor's 1945 victory over Winston Churchill. Said Labor's "Nye" Sevan: "I have seen the squint in [Macmillan's] soul." Macmillan himself, harking back to an old description of Hugh Gaitskell as "a desiccated calculating machine," gleefully cracked: "I still think he is rather desiccated...
After a few surprises in last weekend's full schedule, the Ivy League football standings begin to take shape. The eight teams have now jostled into position, but even so, any prediction on an eventual winner, or even a leader, by next Monday would be no better than a guess...