Word: file
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes later, a short, plump man in a shabby grey suit bustled expressionlessly down the gangway, sank into the Opposition front bench facing Macmillan, and fingered a cardboard file. As the clock struck, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson rose to his feet and for a second savored the tingling silence before breaking it with his flat, nasal Yorkshire voice. "This is a debate," he began, "without precedence in the annals of the House...
...Collins went further: he set up the nonprofit Medic-Alert Foundation. Subscribers pay $5 each for a bracelet and a lifetime medical record kept on file at Turlock. The tag bears the snake staff of Aesculapius and the words "Medic Alert." On the other side is a warning, such as "Diabetic," "Skindiver" (subject to the bends), "Hemophilia," "Allergic to Penicillin." Engraved along with the warning are the wearer's identification number and the injunction "Phone 209-634-4917." Calls may be made collect, the clock around...
This feeling reaches right down to the rank and file. Noting the 9% unemployed in Pittsburgh and the prospects of more automation in steel, the head of a steelworkers local is quick to argue: "This is no time to rock the boat. There are too many alligators in the water." At such times, the tendency of unions is not to press for higher pay but for increased job security. Even management agrees that the union attitude has changed. "Our experience this year," says Inland Steel Negotiator William Caples, "has been that the unions have been pretty realistic and generally easy...
...single radiotelephone circuit. Critical Clergymen. Meanwhile, away from the ranch, there was continued criticism of the wedding, especially by clergymen. Declared Philadelphia's Methodist Bishop Fred Pierce Corson: "It is an appalling shock to the moral sensibilities and sense of fair play of the rank and file of Americans." Stepping out of his field, he predicted that the marriage could cost Rockefeller "three to five million votes" if he becomes the Republican nominee for President. Said Dr. Daniel A. Poling, editor of the Protestant Christian Herald: "I agree with those, and there are many, who will...
...more remarkable be cause its author is a complete amateur, a flooring-materials salesman who wrote the book (his first) in the children's playroom of his home in Glen Ridge, N.J., and even taught himself French by pasting scraps of a French grammar on file cards which he carried with him on selling trips...