Word: closings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite loud bargaining noises, the two sides have come comfortably close to agreement on wages (the company's last offer was a 30? package increase over three years-to an average $3.40 an hour -which the union says is really 22?). But the basic issue was industry's demand for changes in the contract's twelve-year-old Section 2-B, which had deprived the steel companies of the right to change "local working conditions"-practices and customs, varying from one plant to another, governing such matters as crew sizes, the duties of particular jobs...
When Tufts again threatened to close the gap, big Eddie Cuffe took matters into his own large hands and drove to three consecutive layup baskets, two on feeds from Bowditch, at the nine minute mark...
Frank Yeomans took the dash in 4.8, and Pat Liles turned in a fine 1:15.3 clocking to win the 600, for two more Crimson firsts. In a race of teammates, the varsity's Gus Schumacher edged Art Cahn in a close 2:19.3 1000. Mark Mullin ran his old nemesis Art Freeman into the ground to take the mile, and Greg Baldwin added five points in the two-mile. Bob Downs won the broad jump, and the Crimson totaled 10 points in the relays...
...academic programs for undergraduates. But despite his preoccupation with College reform, Lowell never forgot the University's relationship to the "outside world." The same conviction which made him fight to restore an atmosphere of intellectual excitement within the College, made him fight to keep the University in close contact with the "outside." Above all, he believed that complacency could lead an institution only to decay. Lowell, who liked some controversy because it kept issues alive and people alert, wanted to make Harvard not an ingrown "ivory tower," but a lively and intelligent force in contemporary America...
Lowell was personally more involved with the Society of Fellows than with any of his other projects for the College. Not only did he create and endow the Society; he supervised its operation and kept in close touch with its members, even after he had resigned the presidency, until his death in 1943. To him, the Society was the culmination and the end of his campaign to restore intellectual excitement to Harvard...