Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite a declining fervor for the civil rights movement, students are still eager to hear from two Negro militants: Stokely Carmichael and Dick Gregory. When they seek a religious figure, campus organizations think first of two unconventional Episcopal clergymen: the Rev. Malcolm (Are You Running with Me, Jesus?) Boyd and Bishop James A. Pike. Among academics, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith this year seems to be slightly more in vogue than Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan...
When he moves to the bank, Arbuckle's Stanford experience will therefore have more than academic relevance. Next to expansion of its 230-branch network at home, Wells Fargo is most eager to open new paths abroad...
...eleven players who start this morning for the Crimson will be anxious to show that they belong in the Ivy elite. Goalie Dick Locksley wants to show that he is ready and able to mind the nets against any opposition. Halfback Richie Hardy and fullback Bob Gray are also eager to show their stuff. But all three are sophomores and the hopes of the Crimson today are that they don't play like sophomores...
...ricochet from such economic losses has made politicians more eager than usual to intervene in strikes. Nine states are affected by a strike of 20,000 truckers who haul 60% of finished steel from the mills, which has led to shootings, dynamitings, traffic tie-ups and the furlough of 15,000 steelworkers because their plants have run out of space in which to stack up undelivered steel. The yearly rate of steel shipments is down by about 1,500,000 tons. Pennsylvania's Governor Raymond P. Shafer last week asked the governors of eight other steel-producing states...
...projections" for the new paper. But the "answers were not encouraging." Sulzberger added that "major talent and time would be diverted from the Times to the new publication. I can tell you that this added a great deal to the unattractiveness of the whole proposal." He also was not eager to tangle with ten aggressive newspaper unions that had struck four times in the past five years and had helped kill five newspapers in that period. They are still resisting automation more relentlessly than any other unions in the U.S. Last week Britain's Lord Thomson, who owns nearly...