Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sunny December afternoon in 1954, a small group of Air Force officers and agents of the Central Intelligence Agency drove up to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. offices in Burbank, Calif., to confer with Company President Robert Gross and Engineer Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson...
...York City's public schools opened in high spirits last week. Teachers were pleased: by threatening to strike they had won a pay raise of sorts and improvements in working conditions. Calvin E. Gross, superintendent of the nation's biggest school system, was relieved: he could turn from being a labor negotiator to being an educator. Students-more than a million of them-were grateful that the city had provided a teacher for every one of them, in contrast to past years...
Many vital problems never reach Livingston Street. Requests to fix a falling ceiling vanish in a Byzantine fog. It may take years to get an updated syllabus in math or science. Everyone has horror stories about "The System," including Superintendent Gross, the highly skilled administrator who arrived from Pittsburgh last spring to try to bring order out of chaos. "I know one girl who was in the building for six hours just looking for someone to find a job application for teaching," says Gross with cool fury. "I'm going to humanize this system if I have to turn...
...Madre. The peso is firm, gold and dollar reserves stand at a historic high of $510 million, wages climbed 17% last year, while the cost of living was held to an increase of only 1.8%. The country's population rose 3.1%, to 38 million in 1962, but the gross national product rose even faster -4.8%. The boom, said Lopez Mateos, was reaching the people in a multitude of forms...
...Damned Big." With such ammunition, foreign aid critics could hardly wait to assault the bill on the House floor. Cried Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "The day and the hour are at hand to begin ending this foolish notion that it is within the capability of the American people to solve all the problems of the world." Florida Democrat James Haley hoped that Congress would kill "this gigantic boondoggle...