Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, supported Kennedy along with Galbraith and three others. Brinton framed the major issue of the times as: "orthodox or 'classical' economics, and what I'll call Keynesian or Galbraithian economics: . . . whether we are to let our present methods of production and distribution produce the kind of consumers' goods that annoy the intellectuals, or whether we will tamper politically so as to produce education, housing, hospitals, public transportation, which people ought to want...
...CONGRESS The Scrutable Occidental There will always be a whooping crane, Deo volente. And there will probably always be a whooping Congressman. This migratory species is recognized by its raucous cry and by its frequent fumbling, bumbling, freeloading flights to exotic lands, where it lays eggs of oddest shapes. A splendid example of this rara avis is Charles Orlando Porter, 40, Democratic Congressman from Oregon's Fourth District, who returned last week from a fact-finding flight through the islands along the Asian littoral, a flight that created more embarrassment and consternation than a plague of gooney birds...
...sunny day last July, Mechanic Billy Smith, 25, went on the job to reline a steel furnace at the U.S. Pipe & Foundry Co. in Decoto, Calif., south of Oakland. Overhead a giant hook dangled from a traveling crane. In a freak accident, the hook crashed down on Billy Smith's right leg and severed it just above the knee. For three hours and 35 minutes, Billy Smith's leg was kept with his body only by a two-inch-wide ribbon of skin...
...unsettling factor is the long-standing Cambridge tradition that no mayor serve more than one term until all Councillors have had their chance. Hence, present Mayor McNamara, and former Mayors Lynch, De Gugilelmo, and Crane, all would have to buck this custom to gain the Mayor's post...
...Cambridge Civic Association has again failed to gain a majority on the City Council, obtaining only the same four seats it held during the previous term. Incumbents Edward A. Crane '35, Cornelia B. Wheeler, Pearl K. Wise, and Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 were the only CCA-endorsed candidates to gain election...