Word: breather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columnist Max Lerner, writing in the New York Post, wanted a "compulsory breather" of 30 days once a strike date has arrived. During the breather, mediators would review the facts and make recommendations that would be widely publicized, since the papers would still be publishing. "We often act," said Lerner, "as if the alternatives were all or nothing: compulsory arbitration or do-nothingism. There is a healthy ground between them: the use of limited legal powers to dramatize the conflict areas, publicize the facts and solutions, put the two sides on the spot and build up opinion behind a settlement...
...only to watch her pace. Having presided over three White House conferences on the subject, toured the District of Columbia to plant flowers, participated in an anti-litter campaign called Potomac Pickup Day and made two trips outside of Washington-all since February-she might have taken a breather from beauty for a while. Not Lady Bird. She not only visited two more cities last week-planting trees, condemning litter and extolling beauty-but plans to talk beauty to a meeting of the Associated Press this week and to speak next week at a conference of Keep America Beautiful...
...Viet Nam to the poverty bills to civil rights legislation. As for the farm bill, the Star found something to cheer about in the fact that while it was not very good, it was written to take care of the next four years- promise of a welcome breather from an annual congressional hassle. More vehemently, the paper 3 deplores the splintering of the Republican Party by right-wing extremists. At home in Missouri, while it did not support Governor Warren Hearnes in his campaign, it has applauded his accomplishments and his growth as a leader...
...agricultural aid. Though industrial projects already un der way ($5 billion worth of them) will be allowed to reach completion, the heavier effort for the next few years will go into quick-yielding small projects for farmers - wells, irrigation and roads. This year's harvest gives him a breather: 87,200,000 tons of grain have been cut and winnowed...
...nine years ago opened her own high school in a 17th century cobblestone Lugano villa. It now has 100 students, all Americans. Yet Mrs. Fleming still felt that her "students were not getting as much out of Europe as they should." So she thought up the idea of a breather year...