Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repeal of the Taft-Hartley law's section authorizing state right-to-work laws. Then, after sandwiching in a buffet supper for some 1,500 White House staffers, the President greeted 14 business leaders. As he always does, Johnson impressed the businessmen, and A. T. & T.'s Frederick R. Kappel spoke for them all when he reported that the President "is being extremely wise in his thoughtful evaluation" of the U.S. economy...
Moser's call for a cold shoulder was cold-shouldered by most of his Yale colleagues. Robert Jackson, a specialist in Russian literature, called Moser's statement "irresponsible," and said that the university should be hospitable to obnoxious opinions. Even Frederick Barghoorn, who spent 16 days in a Moscow jail last year as an alleged U.S. spy, gulped and endorsed Rozhdestvensky's visit as a useful dialogue that explores rival opinions...
...Robert M. Shaw, Ordeal of the Union by Allan Nevins, The American Immigrant by Gerhard Engelmeier, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision by Roberta Wohl-setter, Columbus by Leslie H. Hawkins, Slavery and the Civil War by Harold Stevenson Robards, The Good Years by Walter Lord, and Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen. More than a third said that they had read one or more of the invented authors.- The professors despairingly concluded that "if individuals checked fictitious books, it is just as likely that they checked real books without having read them." Only...
...Washington operator: the Federal Communications Commission. Last week the FCC announced an annual $100 million reduction in long-distance telephone rates that will decrease A.T. & T.'s rate of return on interstate telephone operations from its present 7.9% to only 7% . A.T. & T.was obviously displeased. Chairman Frederick Kappel termed the reductions "out of step with the Government's efforts to encourage economic growth." But there is little doubt that subscribers will be happy to heed the call...
...generally admitted that Samarra and Butterfield 8 are brilliant, but they were done so long ago that they are no defense for their author, gnat-bitten by reviewers in middle age. What is not admitted is that A Rage to Live, Ten North Frederick and From the Terrace are excellent novels. From the Terrace. the best of the three, stands almost alone in U.S. fiction as a thoroughly successful study of a man reaching for the highest financial power. The novel is 897 pages long; it lacks drama and is built, like most lives, entirely of minutiae. It moves slowly...