Word: fletcherize
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...conciliation and moderation. "We see democracy at work," he said at his victory celebration. "We see the American system at work. This gives a message to students, the alienated, the intellectuals and the liberals across the country." The ballot count was also a message to his Republican opponent, Incumbent Fletcher Thompson. In the primary runoff, Young's appeal was broad enough to attract as many votes as Thompson, an archconservative, polled when he won the seat...
...strange case of U.S. v. Escamilla began July 16 on Fletcher's Ice Island, which the U.S. Air Force named T3. In carrying out meteorological and oceanographic experiments on T3, a joint Government-industry team of 19 technicians had endured months of loneliness and Arctic temperatures as low as -60° F. While colleagues partied in a nearby shelter, Electronic Technician Mario Escamilla sat in his insulated trailer-style living module and guarded a 15-gallon jug of homemade raisin wine. When a reveler came by to claim a share, Escamilla brandished a loaded .30-.30 rifle and chased...
...trades membership, have committed themselves to hiring blacks. The plan was held up until $524,500 in federal training funds came through last month. Within a week, 25 blacks were being trained, but not in highly paid unions like the electricians', plumbers' and steam fitters'. Arthur Fletcher, Assistant Secretary of Labor, sums up the situation: "Neither the Philadelphia Plan nor the various home-town plans have accomplished a darn thing...
...business is changing. U.S. corporate leaders have begun articulating a new philosophy: that business is part of the total society and has an obligation to attack a broad range of social problems, if need be in ways that temporarily retard profits. Fletcher L. Byrom, chairman of Pittsburgh's Koppers Co., finds the idea that business exists only to make a profit as unsatisfactory as "saying that the function of living is to breathe." Charles F. Luce, chairman of metropolitan New York's Consolidated Edison, argues that managers must directly concern themselves with "whether Negroes and Puerto Ricans have decent jobs...
...Tuesday, Thomas I. Atkins, 31, Boston's only black city councillor, announced his candidacy on an anti-war platform. Others already in the race are Daniel J. Houton, a second-year student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and State Senator John J. Moakley, who holds the seat McCormack had before he moved to Congress...