Word: board
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safely at Tachikawa. There it found a one-man, three-star welcoming committee on hand. General Burns had driven eight miles from his home in Fuchu to put the Platts off, put the bumped airmen back on, and order an investigation. Last week, the investigation over, a six-officer board blamed "administrative error," found Platt innocent of bumping the G.I.s, pointed to the fact that the Pacific Express had indeed gone off with eight empty seats-just as the colonel knew it would...
Cried Ohio's A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive board: "The principal effect of this bill is delivered against honest and legitimate trade unionism." Added A.F.L.-C.I.O. Special Counsel Arthur Goldberg in a hot opinion to state labor leaders: "It is plainly an anti-labor bill." Replied DiSalle with equal heat: Such labor leaders as the Teamsters' Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck have gone "a long ways toward destroying what we fought...
...need another example of a Southern state's cutting off its nose to spite its face, but last week it had one. When three Negroes won their suit this winter to be admitted to Georgia State College of Business Administration in Atlanta, Governor S. Ernest Vandiver asked the board of regents to freeze new enrollment in the state's university system. The legislature pitched in with a patently ad hoc law setting the top age limit for entering classes in the university system at 21 (all three Negroes are over 21). The result, predictably ridiculous: in the last...
There are also courses devoted primarily to technical problems, such as Arch. Sci. 253--Reinforced Concrete Design. As a further step the three departments require the students to spend one summer at practical professional experience. Recognizing that one cannot learn flashing and sheathing from a draughting board the Department of Architecture recommends a job in the field. So one recent student found employment as a hod carrier...
...words of the Committee on the Visual Arts, "Less and less is modern man swayed by the argument of the written word, and more and more by the photograph, the bill-board, the cinema, the picture magazine, and now television. Until both sender and receiver of these visual messages are trained in the twin arts of perception and discrimination, the educated man may hardly claim to be the master of his own environment...