Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suite 37A of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Towers, a Japanese and an American stood arm in arm, beaming. "Glad to see you. It's been a long time. Glad to see you," said Douglas MacArthur, 75, General of the Army and chairman of the board of Sperry Rand. "We don't just want to reminisce about the past." said Mamoru Shigemitsu, 68, Foreign Minister of Japan. "We want to talk about the future." Ten years before, to the day, they had met aboard the Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Shigemitsu to sign the surrender of Imperial Japan, MacArthur...
...husband is a Southern gentleman and he believes in slave labor-mine . . . but I simply can't imagine the sort of household Mr. Fischer is describing, since I do the painting, the wallpapering, the sewing, cooking, dishwashing and other such activities around here. I am genuinely glad to see Pappy come home at 5:30. Not to nag at him, either, because I think he is wonderful...
...dismissal lightly. Gathering together his collection of sporting rifles in the palatial official residence, he joked: "Don't worry, I'm not going to start a revolution." As Ali explained it: "For 27 months I have been an overworked bird in a gilded cage, and I am glad to be out of it. Anyway, Chaudhri is a brainier fellow than I and may not find the premiership as tough going as I did." He hopes to resume his old job as ambassador to Washington...
Mice Under Stress. The Navy has one problem which the Army is glad to pass: the sardine-packing of 3,000 or more men into the hull of a single ship for months on end. So the Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda is crowding mice into little boxes and checking the working of their adrenal glands (an index to stress). Purpose: to learn how and why their "vitality and viability" go down in a crowd. Other Bethesda specialties...
...final fillip to good relations, G.E. said it would reopen its contract at the end of three years for a 30-day review of the guaranteed annual wage. G.E. announced that it would undoubtedly still oppose the idea, but would be glad to sit down and talk in a spirit of mutual cooperation. Said G.E.'s Boulware: "We are maturing into a kind of relationship that people ought to have. After all, we are dealing with a $1.2 billion payroll that affects 500,000 people. This is serious and it ought to be handled in a businesslike...