Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weren't fans, we were spectators plugged into a WHDH announcer whose voice sounded like breakfast, and worse yet, into distant, unimportant football games. Notre Dame vs. Purdue. How are the Boilermakers doing? Yanked back and forth in this echo chamber, one received a startling impression of America on a Saturday afternoon. A vast vacuum crossed only by baseballs, footballs, and flying hysterics...
...France. Elcor Chemical Corp. of Midland, Texas, has hopes of gleaning sulfur from gypsum. And the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Monsanto Co. and others are hard at work to find ways of turning the old fire-and-brimstone villain into a new hero. Those pollutants that belch forth from factory smokestacks can, they insist, be scrubbed to yield a surprising amount of salable sulfur...
...seven weeks, bargainers from the U.A.W. and Detroit's Big Three had nattered back and forth over negotiating tables. Not until early last week did G.M. Negotiator Earl Bramblett hand U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock a 22-page booklet titled Summary of General Motors Proposals to the U.A.W. for a New Three-Year National Agreement. A few minutes later, negotiators for Ford and Chrysler made almost identical offers...
...eloquent summary of its "principles, goals and commitments," the newly formed Urban Coalition of 1,200 business, labor, religious, civil rights and local government leaders last week in Washington set forth a bold and comprehensive program to alleviate the desperate plight of U.S. cities. Excerpts...
...seven years she remained in a warehouse, while dozens of propositions were put forth. Some New Yorkers wanted her at Coney Island. Others said on the Manhattan Bridge. New York Life eventually decided to give her to New York University. But it was the middle of the Depression-and the cost of a proper tower was prohibitive. At last the director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art offered her a place of honor in his main hall. And there she has remained ever since...