Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who wrote the Essay on auto insurance, also received an adequate supply of free advice from colleagues who happen to be policyholders. He heard all the old tales of hardhearted claim adjusters, sky-high premiums, canceled insurance. Shnayerson sympathized, but when he recounted how he had solved his own automobile problems, he had the distinct feeling, he says, that no one was ready to follow his lead...
...demanded a full-scale inquiry and added: "Mr. Secretary, what all of your officers will demand to know is just how in hell this could happen in the U.S. Navy." Alexander promised Admiral Thomas Moorer, the Chief of Naval Operations, that if his cause failed, he would request reassignment from the coveted New Jersey command. When the bill came due, Alexander paid it like an officer and a gentleman...
...some snags. When he developed a sore throat, his doctors were relieved to find no evidence of bacterial infection. They decided that a virus was to blame and prescribed a simple gargle. Next, too much fluid accumulated in the sac around Blaiberg's new heart, as may happen after cardiac surgery of any type. This necessitated puncturing the sac to drain it. After that, Blaiberg said he felt much better, and the doctors felt confident enough to reduce his already moderate doses of immunosuppressive drugs...
...Speaker Lazarus, president of F. & R. Lazarus & Co. of Columbus, Ohio, and one of the famed Lazarus family that controls giant Federated Department Stores. Lazarus reminded fellow merchants that one-third of all U.S. unemployed are in the 20 largest metropolitan areas where the biggest U.S. department stores also happen to be based. "They are not at the level of everybody else," he said of this hard core. "That is why, in many cases, they are unemployed. So we have got to say we will hire them; that we will literally create jobs...
...Executive Committee has become, in a short time, quite liberal. In 1960 HYRC members marched on Mount Auburn Street to protest what was termed Adlai Stevenson's "appeasement" in a speech he had delivered on the then-recent summit failure. It wouldn't happen today. HYRC ers are still more conservative politically than their Democratic counterparts but, in many cases, not much more. And there is nothing too exciting, nothing to generate member interest, in being fairly liberal at Harvard today...