Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...switchers mostly feel that their work has become a bore, a trap or a disillusionment. A 40-year-old company president wrote Columbia that he felt "wasted in working for material gain only." A department head in a large engineering firm complained that his job entailed "a continuous round of panics with little ultimate purpose or meaning." "My job was a boring, stale thing to me," said Mrs. Carolyn Sadow, one of 14 people who have been through the New Careers program...
Armed with the Kiernan Report and faced with the new state law, Gartland entered the lists this summer as a firm opponent of racial imbalance. He is still reluctant to propose busing as a comprehensive solution. This summer be moved to institute a study of redistricting; the Committee, to Gartland's surprise, approved it for sometime in the future. He also envisions larger elementary schools with up to 800 pupils, built near ghetto boundaries...
...result: an almost total lack of meaningful activity in the Market. Last week, in a swift and surprising reversal of form, the five ended their hesitation. At a two-day meeting at the Common Market's Brussels headquarters, they finally stood up to Charles de Gaulle, laid down firm but polite terms aimed at coaxing the French back to the fold...
Died. Nicholas Kelley, 80, longtime (1937-57) director and general counsel of Chrysler Corp. and senior partner of Kelley, Drye, the Manhattan law firm whose 1960 probe of conflict-of-interest charges involving Chrysler executives toppled President William C. Newberg (his holdings in companies supplying the automaker earned him more than $450,000) and touched off an avalanche of stockholder suits that forced the resignation of flamboyant Board Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert; of a stroke; in Teaneck...
Despite relative successes in San Francisco and New York, over the whole country Operation Match had incurred a sizable loss, and they were going to need additional capital to keep going. Somehow, Tarr and company found a New York firm--Data Processing, Inc.--who agreed to support them financially. Tarr and Crump had been joined at the end of the spring by Ginsburg, who had dropped out of Cornell ("Out of boredom," Tarr says) during the spring term. By mid summer, Vaugh Morrill had lost interest and had decided to leave the corporation. Therefore, under the present arrangement, Tarr, Crump...