Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interchange of ideas are healthy in a learning experience, but not at the expense of social order. While the administration has been on the defensive, an element of the student body has corrupted the very goals education strives for. A clean-up is needed, backed by a firm (possibly new) administration...
Rumania has been buying from a horde of hungry Westerners. The West German firm of Gutehoffnungshütte won a $20 million share in building the mammoth Galati Steel Mill at the Rumanian end of the Danube-and when the deal was consummated, at a candle-light-cum-gypsy-violin blowout in Bucharest, the Rumanian Deputy Minister for Heavy Industry, Constantin Nācutā, executed a neat hora on the tabletop. Demag and Siemens, Krupp and M.A.N. all add to a German investment in Rumania that exceeds $50 million. Italy's Orlandi is building...
Standing alone on the Times editorial page was Columnist Cyrus L. Sulzberger. He took a firm stand against "flabbiness in Viet Nam" and reminded all concerned that the U.S. "inherited the position of global superpower in 1945 and cannot escape its obligations." He recalled that "the 1947 Greek commitment under the Truman Doctrine was also originally unpopular. Many naive Americans and their newspapers then preferred the Communist rebels to the Athens government." And in the tone of a man delivering an urgent warning to his friends, he wrote: "If we crawl out of Viet Nam now, it is obvious that...
...million profit. Its stock, rising on rumors that outside investors were trying to buy it out, was up 11 points in three weeks and last week closed at 40¼. The outsiders have been turned down and, with autos phased out, the 114-year-old onetime wagonmaking firm should return at last to a stable position...
Johnson regards the change-over as a concession to thrift and good bookkeeping. Bankers, college administrators, and students with NDEA loans--the people most concerned with a switch in the procedure--are not as dispassionate. Forcing a student to obtain a loan from a hometown firm, they say, will create problems never encountered when all he had to do was walk to his college's financial aid office and sign a single form...