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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sponsored by the network, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the Ford Foundation and the Fund for the Advancement of Education, partly financed by American Telephone and Telegraph Co., International Business Machines Corp., Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. and U.S. Steel, the physics course will feature topnotch scientists (first: Dr. James R. Killian Jr.. the President's special assistant for science and technology) as guest speakers, but its main lecturer will be Dr. Harvey E. White, University of California professor of physics. The first semester, "devoted to those aspects of physics necessary to an understanding of atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Atomic Playhouse | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...would have a long way to go to hold his own with U.S. prep schoolers. He was put through every textbook in the USIS language center, and when he was officially awarded the scholarship in April, he began taking special lessons with the wife of Consul General Henry H. Ford. Consul Robert Sherwood took him home to play with his two boys, aged 7 and 11. Soon Abdie replaced salaam with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Boy at St. Paul's | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

After five months of trying to get "the biggest package ever," United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther last week settled with Ford for far less. He got just about what Ford-and the other carmakers-offered back in April. Reuther joined with Ford Vice President and Chief Negotiator John Bugas to announce "a sound and equitable agreement ... a three-year contract .. . fair to the workers, the company and the American public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Peace at a Sound Price | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

General Motors and Chrysler were pleased that Reuther had settled so modestly; they hope to settle on about the same terms. Washington was relieved: the contract promised to bring three yeaRs of auto labor peace at a price that Washington thought would add little to inflationary pressure. Ford's wage bill per worker will go up about 4% annually, which could be balanced by industry's gains in productivity, thus should not greatly alter auto prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Peace at a Sound Price | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...game go? Early last week, Ford called for a showdown. It laid a new offer on the 50-ft.-long bargaining table in the English Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. Within 18 minutes, General Motors and Chrysler gave the U.A.W. almost identical offers. It was one more warning to Reuther that the Big Three, bargaining together as never before, might take some drastic action such as a shutdown or delay in bringing out new models if the U.A.W. went through with plans to strike Ford. Reuther plainly could not afford to fight the united front. It would break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Peace at a Sound Price | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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