Word: greying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against this grey background, the United Automobile Workers' President Walter Reuther vowed in a speech at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City that labor would enter the coming year's collective bargaining "mindful of our broad economic and social responsibilities." Did this declaration mean that Reuther would urge his fellow labor leaders to refrain from pushing wages up during an economic lull, so as to avoid increasing business costs and consumer prices? Did it mean that, since labor's overall output per man-hour has increased very little over the past two years, labor would concentrate...
ADMINISTRATION. The Defense Department must find a way to become an operational as well as a policymaking body in such grey areas as missile development. McElroy has promised a single manager for new space programs. Another critical problem is the increasing demand for an effective missile "czar," since neither Missile Director William Holaday nor Presidential Science Adviser James Killian has yet fulfilled that role...
...Illinois' grey-maned, smooth-talking Everett McKinley ("The Wizard of Ooze") Dirksen, 61, is generally expected to become Senate Republican leader when William Fife Knowland goes off at session's end to run for governor of California. Even Dwight Eisenhower, who always before made it his practice to steer clear of Senate internal affairs, is reminding G.O.P. Senators that Dirksen would serve their purposes better in the long run than such liberal Republicans as New York's Jacob Javits or New Jersey's Clifford Case. Best guess on who persuaded Ike to plead Dirksen...
...elegant $750 wardrobe, hopefully tailored to camouflage the equatorial bulge of Nikita Khrushchev (42-47-44), was delivered to the Soviet embassy in Rome for forwarding to Moscow. Items: a double-breasted charcoal grey suit, a single-breasted brown suit (with a fine red stripe), two overcoats, two pairs of size 9 shoes (with pointed toes), three felt hats. Sighed Roman Tailor Angelo Litrico: "I did my best...
Crew-necked Shetland sweaters in solid colors are still the favorite in the Ivy circuit. Dark grey continues to be popular, but olive green is the fast-rising color of the season...